THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1957.
This Great Convulsion
Why They Lost Out
by SEFTON DELMER
● AS I SEE THIS NEWS FROM RUSSIA, THE FIRST INFERENCE MUST BE THAT KRUSHCHEV IS MAKING A RUTHLESS -MAYBE EVEN DESPERATE-BID TO SAVE HIS SOVIET REGIME FROM FURTHER DISASTERS,
He hus at one and the same time eliminated the diehard Stalinist cham- plong of
authority. absolute party Comraden Molotov and Kaganovich, as well as the two liberals, Malenkov and Sheptior, who could challenge his own leadership of the "progressive anti- Stalinist" camp.
And now, backed by the army under his ally Marshai Zhukov-newly pro- muted to fuk membership of the Presidium-Krushchev means to put on nig most agonising tightrope art yet; that of making concessions to Rusatu's rebels and decentralisers, while letting out bloodcurdling Stalinist barks of command to preserve authority.
All that is clear.
But what is not yet elear is the why and wherefore What has forced him to make this move which must inevitably rock not only the already quaking Communist Party but the whole Soviet world 7
‘KILL OR CURE'
I believe Krushchev has been forced Into this kill or cure netion by a whole set of factors and influences which he seen pulling the Soviet world into disaster.
These are
The successful revolt against the
1 control ol party bureaucrats
and doctrinaires and the rule of the central Moscow authority.
This revolt was begun by the army, who resented the interference of party ideologues-the so-called political com- missars-and used the crisis following Stalin's death to smash them.
From the army the revolt spread to the technocrats-the factory managers, technicians, scientific experts who all resented the handicapping control and intervention in their affairs by inexpert bureaucrats and ideologues.
The local governments have followed
sult, demanding-and getting-more and more authority that formerly belonged to the centre,
The process went even further, with revolt against the local governmonts "party inspired" interference as well,
Krushchev has tried now to stem this tide, to lend it and channel it into some grooves which would preserve authority for the party machine which he heads.
Right now I belleve he is preparing for further concessions to the "decentralising rebels while masking his concessions with proclamations of "anshakably firma parts discipline and unity."
The nationalist revolt of the Suviel Union's European satellites led by Tito of Yugoslavia and Gomulka at Poland is spreading dangerously, despite the subjection of Hungary.
From Czechoslovakin come reports of Gomulka-inspired questioning of Party authority by Intellectuals, technocrats, and army officers.
AWKWARD
To deal with this dincult situations t Czechoslovakia and make concessions there as have been made in Poland. Krushchev requires authority at home-authority which he desperately hopes his new coup will give him.
The Czech revolt comes at a particularlį awkward moment. For Krushchev wants to have his house in order before the arrival in Moscow on his way to Warsaw and Prague of the next trouble factor. ....
Veteran Chinese Communist leader Man Too-tung la challenging the leadership of Moscow's Communia! Party with a more liberal philosophy-more tolerant of local and national deviations.
Krushchev wanis desperately to be undisputed master in his own house before Mao arrives with his challenge.
So far there are no reports of the guns going off in this new crisis of crtals-harassed Krushchev,
AND IT IS MY HUNCH THAT KRUSHCHEV, BACKED BY THE SUPPLE MARSHAL ZHUKOV, WILL DO EVERY- THING TO KEEP THEM FROM FIRING EVEN IF IT MEANS GRANTING FRESH CONCESSIONS TO THE REBELS, COVERED BY STERN PROCLAMATIONS OF “SOCIALIST UNITY, SOLIDARITY AND DISCIPLINE,"
THE MOSCOW ROCK
ROC
From GEORGE GALE: Moscow.
OCK 'n' roll has hit did a sort of energetic quick I looked round. It could Russia. There I was, step to the rhythm. But almost have been England.
the inevitable sitting down to dimer when let's not quibble. This must There was
the Fuddenly the band blared be
nost
powerful short man dancing with a out the unmistakable tune Western influence to have great, imperious-bosomed of "Shake, Rattle, and hit Russia since Karl Marx. prima donna. Roll."
To their feet got half the restaurant to go duneing, Moscow was rocking 'n' rolling.
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the same devastating results in the U.S. and Britain for they too have devised and
The Kremlin chiefs can no with radioactivity und shower BRITISH Intelligence au-
thorities believe that a longer take contor from the down over huge areas,
Existence of vast industrini and: The Russians know they could new leakage of U.S. atomic military Installations "safe produce secrets to Russia is behind behind the Urais." the Kremin showdown which has led to the exput sion of Molotov, Mulenkov, and other disciples of Stalin.
If their reasoning is right the world has reat hope of release from atomic fear for the first Her since Hiroshima,
The ntcnic secrels concern the performance of the H-bombs being stockplied for the U.S. Strategic Air Command and the plans for using them in retalla- tion to any
Iussia.
Z
9 THE PARTY LINE conviction
that Communism will even tually triumph as a result of an nevitable war with the West is no longer tenable.
2 ANY deliberate attempt to
disrupt disarmament plans which could reduce the risk of H-bomb war is as dangerous to Hussin as it is for the rest of the world.
Thumps
tested "dirty" bombs, though of super-weapons. But this would
lower power
than the U.S.
be no recompense for an wiln-
habitable Russian homeland.
The "clean" bombs developed by the US, and Britain could bring no comfort to the Russian war-lords. Such bombs are being made mainly so that test ex- plosions enn be stared without causing a dangerous degree of radioactive fall-out.
They might be used for special purposes in war, but nobody 1 have questioned in defence departments la London or Washington believes that
provocation by M Bolshevik
OLOTO V the velcron whose foreign policy was based for years on They have revealed that the the dogma of the Red Army's "dirty" bombs would be with- U.S. weapons would release 0 Invincibility, could not bring held in the first all-out assault much radioactive dust that the himself to accept these con- which each side would launch, bombardment or relatively few clusions, the Intelligence men key targets could make almost believe. Neither could Malenkov, the whole of Russia un- Stalin's star pupil. Inhabitable.
'Scarlet....
"Dirty"
bombs pack the
biggest punch, and it is these weapons which make up the They continued to preach the bulk of the U.S. strategic stock- Inevitability of war with the plle. West and--a5 Khrushchev bus If the Intelligence mer pre revealed-did all they could to right, the latest shake-up in prevent Atomic disarmament. Moscow means that the chance Air Command Khrushchev is understood to of a global war touching itself STRATEGIC
plans now known the hate thumped the table and off through "trigger-happiness" Rusalóns contain detalls of roared that war, far from being which is currently the greatest scarlet areas covering hundreds inevitable, was now Impossible. donger to mankind-has been
Ho of thousands of square miles
was apparently able to reduced. downwind of the H-bomb targets relato.ce his arguments with in which 80 per cent of the detalled information that the population would be casualties F-bombs ready to be taken up at a moment's notice by the from radiation sickness." Khrushchev
The Intelligence men belleve Stratgeic Air Command chleve
shetr has realised that
fantastle power ol three 60,000,000 tons of TNT. eachs this development carries
a process which sets frea immediate political consequences by
enormous quantities of do active dust.
for Russia:
A splvvy character kept trying
1
doctrine to get closer to his girl friend than she wanted, Two girls danced together, just like they do at the local hop.
IT DESTROYS Stalin's that Russia would From then on the night
win a global war because her was made. A lank-haired,
size and scattered towns would pale-faced crooner got up
enable her to absorb all the H- The night ended with every-bombing the Allies could mount the ground. and sang in English "Isn't
while they were being bombed body on their feet dancing to
out of existence by the Red Air the tune of "Swonderful.”
Force.
At least the band was. It A Lovely Day To Be The Muscovites themselves Caught In The Rain?"
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The effect of this dust would be multiplied because for must of the key Russian torgets the Strategle Air Command plays to explode the bombs on or near Euch explosion would suck of ions of debris up thousands which would be contaminated
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