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...Sino-Soviet split is getting wider...
...Cuba the only issue that inflamed the Sino-Soviet rivalry. Nehru reported that Moscow, after weeks of stalling, finally agreed to sell India MIG jet fighters, which might be used against invading Red Chinese troops. A Pravda editorial on Peking's border war with India carefully refused to take sides: if anything, Pravda leaned slightly toward India. "Bellicosity," tut-tutted the sweet voice of Moscow, is "foreign to the very spirit of a socialist state...
Despite the confused reports concerning the recent fighting on the Sino-Indian border, one thing is clear: the Chinese have been planning their offensive for some time. The skill and effectiveness with which they deployed their troops over rugged Himalayan terrain indicates a carefully prepared battle scheme...
...over what they really should or could do about Cuba, but mainly over whether or not they should try to issue a communique. Although one was finally produced, it was hardly calculated to cause even one grey hair in Castro's beard. It recognized the obvious-that "the Sino-Soviet intervention in Cuba is an attempt to convert the island into an armed base for Communist penetration of the Americas and subversion of the democratic institutions of the hemisphere...
...more than a million sales, was "Red Crag," by Lo Kuang-pin and Yang Yi-yen. This 420,000-word blockbuster, set in Chungking in 1949, "describes the bitter struggle between the people and the U.S.-Chiang reactionaries." Its critical scenes occur "behind the bars of the so-called Sino-American Co-operation Organization (SACO), a big concentration camp jointly operated by the U.S. imperialists' secret service and its lackeys, the Chiang gang. They use all the most diabolical means of torture to crush the will of the captured Communists...