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Risky Distinctions. To the West, the ultimate question raised by the Sino-Soviet split is whether it bodes good or ill. All Communist splits, big or small, are essentially the result of failures-failure to meet a goal, failure to measure up to reality. One failure behind the present Sino-Soviet quarrel is Russia's recent inability to make headway in the cold war; another is the glaring fact that more than four decades after the revolution, communism is nowhere able to match the capitalist standard of living. In this respect, the West can obviously take heart from...
...orthodoxy comes from Communist intellectuals who are demanding greater cultural and political freedom. Party bosses, who have always found it easier to deal with nonbelievers than heretics, are in a quandary. While recognizing the efficacy of "liberalization" as a cultural safety valve, they also realize that in the current Sino-Soviet ideological fracas, it is necessary to impose a certain amount of discipline in order to close ranks behind Moscow. Anxious to avoid the stigma of Stalinism, the satellite governments have for the present forsworn arrest and imprisonment in favor of less drastic measures, such as "educational" discussions of "erroneous...
American fears of increasing Chinese influence in the affairs of North Vietnam are groundless, Fall said. Minh is a Russian-trained Bolshevik and tends to side with Russia in the current Sino-Soviet dispute, he claimed...
Recent moves in Romania away from Soviet domination and toward a more neutral position in the Sino-Soviet rift may have fallen beneath the attention of the world's press, but are extremely obvious to students in that country...
...Gaulle's spokesmen explain that he feels the West should face up to the reality that "China exists," and take advantage of the Sino-Soviet split and the emergence of an independent China policy to open an avenue of contact with the vast human and geographic mass that China represents. Embittered U.S. officials grumbled that De Gaulle has completely overlooked the fact that the U.S. has paid and is still paying to keep troops in South Korea facing the Communist threat, is financing the Chinese Nationalist military effort on Formosa, and is currently engaged in a fighting war with...