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Died. Harry Pollitt. 69, a founder of the British Communist Party in 1920, who served as its general secretary from 1929 (except for a two-year downgrading following the 1939 Russo-German pact) until 1956, when, as a Stalinist, he was kicked upstairs to the party chairmanship; of a stroke; at sea off Australia...
...agency driving to build this unheralded rival to Western Europe's powerful six-nation Common Market is the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, or COMECON. Founded eleven years ago in Moscow as a crude Stalinist device for milking the satellites for Soviet benefit, COMECON was transformed into some thing more palatable after the 1956 Polish and Hungarian risings had compelled the Russians to pour $1.5 billion in emergency aid into the satellite lands. Communist rulers of the seven satellite nations pledged their peoples' labors to help Nikita Khrushchev overtake and "bury" the capitalist West through a planned...
Nikita Khrushchev is a man who came to power in the Stalinist school, who has dispatched his enemies with relentless political cunning and pressed the harsh realities of Soviet foreign policy from Berlin to Hungary, with tanks and troops. Viewed in the light of his aims, methods and past behavior, Khrushchev's outburst was a calculated tactical thrust that fitted into a sinister pattern of alternating promises and punches. Purpose behind the pattern: to destroy U.S. prestige around the globe by stirring doubt and divisions within the U.S., by straining the bonds between the U.S. and its allies...
...regime? Had he seized on the U-2 to scrap his policy of rapprochement with the U.S. while loudly blaming the U.S. for its failure? It seemed so. Apparently, Nikita Khrushchev was abandoning his detente policy as a ploy that had failed, and reverting to the old Stalinist policy of toughness...
...Mercader was hustled out of prison and aboard an airliner to Cuba, a procedure that enabled the Mexican government to get rid of an undesirable character and also to avoid demonstrations. The final proof, if any were needed, that Mercader -now greying, beefy and 46-had always been a Stalinist agent was supplied by his traveling companions: two husky "diplomats" from Communist Czechoslovakia...