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...value. Once one of us was invited to attend a discussion meeting of a few young bureaucrats from a certain ministry. There he had the frightfully uncomfortble experience of listening to them expound the notion of the inherent inefficiency of the parliamentary system. They exhibited a peculiar combination of Marxist-Leninist contempt for parliamentarianism as a bourgeois facade with the impatient frustration of bureaucrats at the irritating inefficiency of the parliamentary procedure...
Protestants and Catholics, threatened by the common dangers of Marxist enmity and secular indifference, are in many places drawing closer and closer together in the modern world. At last week's pilgrimage to Roland's cottage, the bankers and farmers, miners, office workers and their wives, who are carrying on the faith of the embattled camisards, renewed their sense of what is now a faraway tradition, listening to a sermon out of doors from a collapsible pulpit, and studying such Huguenot relics as a clandestine pastor's flat hat that can fold into the shape...
...again that imperialist wars are inevitable," adding that only "fools and dogmatists" could say (as the Chinese have been saying) that Russian advocacy of peaceful coexistence was a sellout to capitalism. Peking's Vice Premier Li Fu-chun promptly retorted that China's Communists "are the real Marxist-Leninists." lashed out at "modern revisionists and those who echo them...
...Nikita Khrushchev. It wasn't the inhumanity he objected to; it was the dogma. Communes, Nikita told visiting U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, were "oldfashioned and reactionary." But what really irked the Kremlin was Peking's implicit boast that the commune system would propel Red China into the Marxist never-never land of full Communism ahead even of Rus sia itself...
Satirist Ehrenburg also leads his pantaloon pilgrim to some slapstick swipes at Communist literature of the period. Although all he knew about the subject was that "Leo Tolstoy had a handsome beard just like Karl Marx," the little tailor becomes an "inexorable" Marxist literary critic. As pundit of proletarian literature -which is what Ehrenburg himself became after he ended his Paris stay in 1940 and went home-Lasik writes a preface for a socialist realist novel about romance in a soap factory ("Dunja yielded to the beat of new life, and whispered, blushing slightly: 'You see. we have surpassed...