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Party Rites. Father Janos' cellmate proves to be Hungary's No. 2 Communist, Leslie Rab, a character clearly modeled on onetime Hungarian Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, who was purged in 1949 as a Titoist. Rab is the great sinner unknowingly on his way to penance. For the second half of the novel, the good Christian and the still-loyal Communist stage a fascinating intellectual wrestling match for each other's minds and souls. Rab scoffs at the existence of God and His goodness: "Did God create man for misery, for eternal struggle, in order to enjoy...
...negotiate with a man it would have preferred to use as a mere instrument. Today, in his old age, Mao has become a full and equal member of the "collective leadership of world Communism," a man no longer to be suspected in the least of "separatist" or Titoist tendencies. Mao is the largest individual figure in world Communism, and overtops any single Russian leader...
...strength-the relationship to Soviet Russia. It is a long-range weakness. The short-term advantages of the alliance are so great for each side, the results already so efficacious that it would be futile to base current strategy or hopes as the British have notably done-on a Titoist divorce between Peking and Moscow. But it may not always be so. In Russia's help to China there is calculated restraint; Moscow has a vested interest in keeping Red China dependent on Russia, but Red China's leaders have talked em phatically and often of their plans...
Since the Titoist party conference in Zagreb in 1952, many another Yugoslav
...made Kostov his No. 2 man. Soon Kostov was accused of "anti-Sovietism," tried for treason. Persuaded to write a 32,000-word confession, at trial became the first major Communist defendant to repudiate a confession. Disposition: hanged. Dimitrov did not last either. Displeased with Dimitrov's own Titoist tendencies, the Kremlin called him to Moscow for "medical treatment." Final entry: dead of "liver ailment...