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Portugal's aggressive comrades, on the other hand, have revived traditional Socialist fears about the ruthless Communist lust for power. Last November's abortive attempt at a coup cost Alvaro Cunhal's party both power and prestige, but the experience was too close a call for many a wary Socialist...
...accommodate the Communists' new image is beginning to divide European Socialists into two camps: a Northern group that wants no alliances with the Communists, and a Southern coalition that believes such alliances are necessary for leftist political victory. The debate sharpened considerably over the past two weeks at two major conclaves of Europe's Socialist leaders...
...first round took place at a meeting of Socialists from 18 European countries at Helsingor (Hamlet's Elsinore) in Denmark. The Northern Socialists-including British Laborites, West German Social Democrats, Danish, Swedish and Austrian parties-vehemently reiterated what has come to be a cornerstone of the Socialist International's policy: no dealings with Communists. "We see no reason to engage in any kind of cooperation," thundered West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, warning that any alliances would endanger both NATO and the Common Market...
Common Drive. "You should not declare anathema what you do not know," answered French Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, who has made himself chief spokesman for the Southern Socialist position. He argued that Western Europe's Communist parties are changing, becoming more independent of Moscow, sloughing off archaic Stalinist ideology. Socialists, therefore, can safely ally themselves with Communists in a common leftist drive for power. Mitterrand's views have been challenged as being too ingenuous about Communist intentions, most recently in The Totalitarian Temptation, a new book by disillusioned Socialist Jean-François Revel (TIME...
...Southern Socialists clearly viewed the alliances as a necessity, not an ideal. Spain's Felipe Gonzalez ruled out an exclusive Socialist-Communist partnership in his country, preferring a broader coalition that could include progressive Catholics and anyone else seeking a "democratic rupture" in post-Franco Spain (see story page 42). Manuel Alegre, deputy head of the Portuguese Socialist Party, charged that Cunhal's Communists in Lisbon "conduct themselves like a party from another planet and another...