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...string of stockyards, tenements and small factories near the bridges between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, El Chamizal hardly seems worth the fuss. Yet President Kennedy heard about it at length during his Mexico trip last year. He left convinced that it was time to end the quarrel once and for all. Last week, after months of negotiation by U.S. Ambassador Thomas Mann, the U.S. and Mexico, in simultaneous ceremonies in Washington and Mexico City, announced a settlement...
...Kremlin, in turn, could not afford to appear intractable. At week's end the Peking press suggested that perhaps a few of the Sino-Soviet differences could be settled soon, while others could be deferred till later. This simply meant that the Chinese were ready to prolong the quarrel indefinitely. "If the differences cannot be resolved this year," said Peking blandly, "they can wait until next year." The Russians were less patient. They shot back an answering communiqué warning Peking that "the immediate future" will decide whether the split will widen. Then Moscow gave the Red Chinese...
...warmer." Fresh Insults. In one sense, things undoubtedly got warmer when both sides met behind the massive walls of a rarely used mansion in the Lenin Hills section of Moscow. Suslov and Teng exchanged toasts, but that was just routine. For under the pose of politeness, the Sino-Soviet quarrel was becoming ruder than ever. Without explanation, Peking suddenly withdrew its two entries from an international film festival about to open in Moscow. And just before the party leaders met, Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung exchanged a fresh round of insults over Red China's 25-point denunciation...
...simplest, the Russian-Chinese quarrel is over what strategy to follow toward the ultimate victory of Communism-and over who shall be in charge of operations. But beneath this there lies a far deeper split: the split between Communist theory and human reality...
...whether the Sino-Soviet split was real. Khrushchev, they figured, might be relatively nice to the West only long enough to wangle some concessions on NATO or nuclear arms control; then Mao would step in and together they would demolish the free world. Today it is inconceivable that the quarrel is merely an act. In fact, there is a growing vision-shared by such disparate prophets as Arnold Toynbee and Charles de Gaulle-of Russia and the West some day standing together as allies against China. Stranger things have happened in history. Yet the vision has its dangers...