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...Sieve a Week. Power in Czechoslovakia rests in the hands of a small, inscrutable inner circle of Communists, who get their orders from the offices of the Cominform in Bucharest or directly from Moscow. Most notable member of this inner circle is Rudolf Slansky, secretary general of the party. Other members, according to the Times's Schmidt, are Bedrich Gemmder, contactman for the Cominform Defense Minister Dr. Alexej Cepicka, and National Security Minister Ladislav Kopriva. But Schmidt suspects it does not include President Klement Gottwald, chairman of the Communist Party, or Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky. (While both men seem...
More important, he said, "Improvement of economic relations and other types of cooperation [which] can . . . contribute to the easier solution of disputed problems." Next day, in his first press conference since his break with the Cominform, Tito amicably hinted that he was ready for the cession of Trieste to Italy if Italy would give up the border town of Gorizia to Yugoslavia...
Tokuda, the party's No. 2 man, supports No. 1 Communist Sanzo Nozaka in his "soft" tactical line. They have cooperated with other parties and rarely attack U.S. occupation policies. This line has been sharply criticized by the Cominform, speaking for the Kremlin...
Shiga, the party's No. 3 man, has sided with the Cominform against the policies...
...dispute came to a head at a recent central committee meeting. Shiga warned against Titoist tendencies in the Japanese party leadership. Nozaka and Tokuda, he charged, showed "sectarian" disregard for criticism, ignored "the great role [of the] Cominform . . . and Soviet Union in the forefront of internationally advancing people's power," and stuck dangerously to outmoded notions of a popular front with bourgeois elements. "The time has come, comrades," exhorted Shiga, "to bend our utmost efforts toward the bolshevization of the party." When Nozaka and Tokuda squelched the memo in which Shiga set forth his views, Shiga let it leak...