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Clearly, the "indestructible monolithic unity" of the international Communist movement-once the theme of such meetings-had been eroded to the thinnest, hardly visible varnish. Boldly summing up the sentiments of most of the Western party leaders, Spain's Santiago Carrillo declared that "there can be no doubt that we Communists today have no center of leadership and are not bound by any international discipline...
Spain's stocky Santiago Carrillo argued that the Communist movement was no longer a "church" with "its own martyrs and prophets," and believers who celebrate the Russian Revolution "like Christmas." Referring obliquely to repressive Soviet and East European regimes, he called for transforming Spain into a democracy without "dictatorial methods, recognizing political and ideological pluralism and with full respect paid to the result of general elections." The publication of Carrillo's speech in the East German party newspaper prompted a local television technician to remark: "That's the best thing I've read in Neues Deutschland...
...Despite Carrillo's and Berlinguer's eloquent espousals of "Eurocommunism," the star and clear winner at the Berlin summit was the wily Tito. His policy of nonalignment, pursued for three decades, seemed finally to have been appreciated by Europe's Communists. In a solemn mood of self-congratulation, he commended other parties for affirming Yugoslavia's "principles of independence, equality, autonomy and noninterference." As the conference ended, many observers and participants agreed that this might well be the last attempt at Communist summitry. Predicted a Yugoslav party stalwart: "The conference had no past-and no future...
...invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and last year criticized the Portuguese Communists for their lack of commitment to democracy. This hostility to authoritarianism was reflected in the outcome of the party's power struggle while in exile. The fight was won by the Paris faction supporting the moderate Santiago Carrillo over a Moscow-based group favoring Lister, the venerable Spanish Civil War stonecutter-general...
...matter what the Prince does in his first months in power, he is likely to be opposed by much of the left, especially the P.C.E. At his exile headquarters in Paris, party Secretary-General Santiago Carrillo last week told TIME that the P.C.E. will accept Juan Carlos only if he is chosen by the Spanish people in "free elections" held under a "provisional government in which all political parties are present." Raúl Morodo, a member of the executive committee of the Popular Socialist Party (one of the two leading Socialist groups), agrees that a broad-based provisional government...