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Conflicting foreign policy aims, not ideological differences, precipitated the Sino-Soviet dispute, Frank Rendell of the M.I.T. Center for International Studies, said last night at a discussion sponsored by the Harvard chapter of Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy...
...crucial snag in Sino-Soviet relations, Rendell contended, came in 1958 over Soviet proposals for a joint fleet in the Pacific. The fleet was part of a comprehensive defense alliance the U.S.S.R. was trying to negotiate with the Chinese. In the months before the proposal on the fleet, the Soviets had made arrangements to establish submarine bases, missile sites, and radar installations on Chinese soil, all to be jointly controlled...
...against Israel and criticized the cold-war policy of John Foster Dulles as being too negative. He was unafraid to prophesy: he once predicted that "we shall see in the Orient the rise of a Christianity far outpassing that which we of the West have conceived;" long before the Sino-Soviet split, he argued that history was pushing the U.S. and Russia closer together...
Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies...
Clearly No. 1. On the Sino-Soviet front, Brezhnev had regretted the Soviet Union's "unsatisfactory" relations with Red China, but had carefully left open the door to reconciliation. Brezhnev also swapped his title of First Secretary of the Communist Party for the old Stalinist title of General Secretary, and the Presidium, or eleven-member steering committee, was renamed the Politburo-another Stalinist label. But party speakers emphasized that the names derived from Lenin's time, not from Stalin's, and would only strengthen collective leadership...