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Indonesia Leaves U.N.; Red China Applauds Additional evidence of the growing bonds between

Communist China and Indonesia was produced during the recent visit to Peking of Dr. Subandrio, Indonesian first vice prime minister and foreign minister (see De- velopments and Trends, page 16). The mass rally wel- coming Dr. Subandrio was addressed Jan. 26 by Mar- shal Chen Yi and reported by Hsinhua News, Peking the same day. The Chinese vice-premier and foreign minister, after strongly condemning the U.S. irnperial- ist-manipulated United Nations, asserted:

Pravda on U.N. Crisis

“ . . . The United Nations must correct its mistakes, and it must be thoroughly reorganized, or it will have no future. . . . Indonesia’s withdrawal from the United Nations is the first step in promoting such reorganiza- tion. Consideration may also be given to the setting up of another United Nations, a revolutionary one, SO

that rival dramas may be staged in competition with the existing U.S.-manipulated United Nations for people to make a comparison. . . .

“Under the manipulation of U.S. imperialism, the United Nations has done so many evil things that it has long become infamous. . . . The United States has excluded from the United Nations the People’s Republic of China with one quarter of the world’s population.”

Stating that “Recently, Britain has mustered in ‘Malaysia’ no more than several tens of thousands of troops and a few dozen warships with which it attempts to overawe the Indonesian people,” Marshal Chen Yi concluded:

“The Indonesian people are not isolated in their struggle. The anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist strug- gle of the people of the world is an integral whole. The peoples of China and Indonesia have always sup- ported each other in the struggle against imperialism and colonialism. Should the British and U.S. imperial- ists dare to impose a war on the Indonesian people, the Chinese people will definitely not sit idly by. Final victory will certainly belong to the great Indonesian people.”

In a response to the welcome speeches at the rally, Dr. Subandrio stated that “imperialism had encircled Indonesia and China. But it is precisely this encircle- ment that has made us rise up in greater vigor, inspired our new spirit and aroused our courageous will.”

After stating that the “intimate friendship between the Indonesian and Chinese peoples has enabled the two peoples to unite in dealing with U.S.-led imperialism and colonialism everywhere,” Dr. Subandrio asserted: “Let us continue the struggle against colonialism and imperialism, strengthen our ranks in all respects, so We may positively bury the era of imperialism as quickly as ever possible.”

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The obstructive Soviet position on the payment of U.N. dues, especially those supporting peace-keeping operations (see Com- munist Affairs U/5, Sept.-Oct. 1964, p. is), is illustrated in this cartoon-which is loaded with anti-U.S. propaganda.

Above the cartoon by Boris EfImov, published in Prwdu Feb. 5, is an editorial comment reading: “American diplomacy continues to spread its provocative ballyhoo about some alleged ‘indebtedness’ of a number of countries in the United Nations organization- (from newspapers) .”

On the question mark are the words “The Financial Question.” On the drum is printed “Financial Crisis!!!” and on the cymbal are the words “Financial Indebtedness.”

Under the cartoon is a cut-line reading “Solo by a sensational eccentric in the U.N.” Here note the dollar sign on the “eccentric,” which word could also be translated as “clown”; and “sensational” is used here in the sense of “ballyhoo.”

Indian Government Exposes Communist Subversion Sharply differing versions of de Indian government’s

crackdown on Communists (Communist Affairs 11/6, Nov.-Dec. 1964, p. 17) have come out of New Delhi and Moscow. Pravda of Jan. 13, in condemning the Indian government’s measures, said in part:

“Recently there have been mass arrests in India among the parallel Communist Party that has been newly created by ‘leftist’ elements. The Indian society

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is condemning these arrests and calls on the government to stop the repressions. A special declaration of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of India, published in New Age, states that the CPI strongly pro- tests the unfounded repressions which violate demo- cratic norms and freedoms.”

Gulzarilal Nanda, the Indian Home Minister, on Jan. 1 over All-India Radio, placed the facts before the Indian people, saying in part:

“There is reason to believe that the Chinese Govern- ment was expecting the Communist Party of India to resort to subversive action to synchronize with the Chi- nese aggression [in IgGo], and, to quote from a Com- munist document, to hold the Indian government in a sort of pincer movement.

“AS you are aware, this expectation did not material- ize because the left reaction at that time was not strong enough or sufficiently organized to take effective action. On the basis of this experience, both Peking and the left faction here proceeded to make up this deficiency.

“At its convention in Tenah in July 1964, the left faction broke away from the Communist Party of India and formed a new party. There is reason to believe that the new party was formed under Peking’s inspira- tion.

“There is reason to believe that the Communist Party, left, has close links with the Chinese, from whom it draws ideological inspiration and receives support in other forms. . . .

“The object of the party now is to promote an inter- nal revolution to synchronize with a fresh Chinese attack destroying the democratic government of India with a kind of pincer movement which, as is said earlier, was hoped for but could not materialize in 1962.

“It clearly emerges that the leaders of the party have been preparing the rank and file for armed revolution and guerrilla warfare.

“Various state units of the Communist Party, left, had been asked to strengthen their organization for illegal underground operations, which in their jargon is described as technical apparatus for revolutionary action.

“These detentions have to be viewed as an urgent measure of security in view of the treacherous role of an anti-social element in our community and is no sense an attack on any political faith or party. Some persons have to be deprived of their liberty for the sake of the large freedom of our people.”

Airmail Service Behind the Wall This comment on Communist postal service appeared

in Da Morgen, (East) Berlin, Jan. 6:

Two hundred years ago, the delivery of a letter from Warsaw to (East) Berlin took exactly 12 days. The delivery of an air letter mailed Dec. 24 last year reached its destination after i 1 days. This proves that transportation of mail by air is faster indeed.

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Kommunist Pictures Gen. Taylor as “Monster” Kommunist, the theoretical and political journal of

the CPSU Central Committee, publishes a department, “Anti-Communism Personalized” ( Antikommunism u Zitsakh), which, following the lead of the new program of the CPSU, adopted at its last Congress, the rend, in October 1961, attacks anti-Communism as “the principal ideological and political weapon of imperialism.” Ac- cording to Kommunist, anti-Communism is the u~fy- ing force and the “black banner” under which have rallied “all the enemies of social progress: the financial oligarchy and the militarists, the fascists and the re- actionary clergy, the colonizers and the large land- owners, all the ideological and political accomplices of imperialist reaction.”

In issue No. 1, January 1965, this department of Kom- munist publishes a scathing portrait of Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, the U.S. Ambassador in Vietnam, as a hor- rible example of “anti-Communism personalized.” The article, entitled, “The Career of a Chastiser” (Kmyera karatyelya), in the sense of the head of a punitive ex- pedition, is signed by N. Polyanov.

Beginning with Ambassador Taylor’s appearance at Bien-Hoa after the Viet Cong’s successful raid on that aerodrome 20 kilometers from Saigon, Polyanov paints the portrait of a vicious but incompetent, ineffectual and frustrated “anti-Communist” personally responsible for all the “aggressions” in Vietnam and for all the reckless bombings of women and children-out of sheer blood-lust and impotent rage against the inevitable vic- tory of Communism.

Absurd though this may sound to those who have other channels of information concerning Taylor, this article is likely to be effective among millions of people isolated from all except Communist channels of infor- mation. Though the writing is on the purple side, it gives the impression of being grounded in concrete facts, and Ambassador Taylor emerges from the Poly- anov treatment as a kind of anti-Communist monster.

Kommunist on Capitalist, Socialist Planning In a lo-page article entitled “Planning Anarchy” and

such sub-titles as “The Sisyphian Labors of Bourgeois ‘Planners’ ” and “The Govermnent ‘Plans’ While The Bourgeoisie Maneuvers,” Kommunist No. 2, 1965 states in part:

“One and the same thought is most often expressed in bloated monographs and magazine articles, i.e., that only a ‘strong dose’ of long term ‘planning’ can help support the position of capitalism in its economic com- petition with socialism. But is it possible to combine the genuine planning of national economy with private capitalist ownership of the means of production, with all the socio-economic structure of contemporary capi- talism? Attempts at such a combination are just as abortive as attempts at squaring of the circle. It is not by accident that many bourgeois economists have di- rected their efforts along a different path. Interpreting the term ‘planning’ one way and another, they at- tempt to fit to it various state and monopolistic forms of

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long-range influences on economy. A search is car- ried on for ‘planning’ methods that would peacefully coexist with private capitalist property.

“Striving to disguise the contrast between aims, methods and the very essence of the state and monopo- listic planning on the one hand, and scientific planning in socialist countries on the other, some bourgeois theor- ists put secondary, formal features of planning into the foreground. On this basis they attempt to develop their theory of planning, ‘common’ to all countries and so- cial systems. . . .

“But in reality the contemporary capitalist system . . . creates the possibility, while its contradictions raise the necessity of state and monopolistic interventions in the economy. However, [such interventions are] funda- mentally distinct from scientific planning of national economy, which is possible and necessary only where basic means of production are in the hands of the state.. .

“To counterbalance bourgeois ‘programming,’ which represents only a cover for the intensification of reac- tionary state and monopolistic control over the economy in general, and subsequent limitation of the rights and opportunities of trade unions in particular, the progres- sive forces in the capitalistic countries promote their own concrete programs of economic reorganization and growth. These programs, reflecting the truly common national aims, constitute a part of the democratic strug- gle against state and monopolistic capitalism. The only way to the effective planning of social economy in the interests of the people is not through the darning of the holes in a decrepit capitalist system, even with the aid of the newest econometric methods, but through revo- lutionary social and economic transformations. Only social ownership of the means of production opens the way for scientific, including among them the mathe- matical, methods of planning.”

Danger of Subversion in Africa Burtmdi is not the only African nation to show alarm

over the Chinese threat to that continent (see Develop- ments and Trends, p. 31). Cotonou Radio, Dahomey, broadcast the following report on Jan. 8:

‘Should we who do not want Africa to remain un- der foreign domination allow it to become Chinese?’

This is the question President Houphouet-Boigny this week asked Ivory Coast students, particularly those in foreign lands who have been indulging in Communist propaganda. He then declared:

We must face the facts. Peking has fomented con- flicts in Africa and the enemy is acting through inter- mediaries. The Chinese are in a hurry because of their growing population. They are looking for space and what attracts them most is the empty space in Africa. Their insidious propaganda is directed to- wards our heart and not our reasoning. And since it is the heart that counts in Africa, they have found an audience for their ideology among some of our brothers.

To arrive more rapidly at their goal, they have established training camps for our African patriots from which Communist subversion is organized to

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gnaw at our continent bit by bit. They have formed groups to be used to fight brothers and sisters in op- posing camps. This is new in Africa and it is a trag- edy that worries us. Africa has suffered enough. What we want is the welfare of the African in dig- nity and independence.

Stop Trying to be “Amicable Man,” Chinese Urged The Peking Chung-kuo Ch’ing-nien Pao of Dec. 17,

1964 stated in part: “Some people try to undermine the collective system

or take advantage of the collective. Others do things that violate law or break discipline. . . . Although some people are clearly aware of these wrongdoings they are indifferent to them. Others try as much as possible not to concern themselves with these things whenever they come upon them, fearing that they may offend some people. The masses call those who cherish this idea persons who try to be ‘amicable.’

“ . . . They simply do not care at all whether the wolf has devoured the sheep or vice versa. As a matter of fact, in doing so, they aid and abet in no small measure misdeeds and wrongdoings that undermine collective interests, thus bringing losses to the state and the col- lective. Whether this point of view-that is, whether the wolf has devoured the sheep or vice versa-is merely an assumption or otherwise, the fact is that only the wolf can eat the sheep and not the other way round.

“In order to get along peacefully with those who are likely to make mistakes, people who cherish the idea of trying to be amicable are even willing to give up their stand on matters of principle, so that their con- cessions may win other people’s goodwill. When col- lective interests are impaired, they do not stand on the side of the collective and struggle against bad people and bad deeds. . . . They say, ‘It is not easy to win the friendship of a single person, but it takes only a few words to offend a person.’ ”

The Controversy Over Half a Rice Dumpling The Peking Kung-jen Jib-pao made this editorial

comment on Dec. 13, 1964: Comrades of the Raw Material Depot attached to

the Transport Department of the Wuhan Steel Com- plex developed a lively debate on the matter of the throwing away of half a rice dumpling. They cer- tainly had a good debate. This was by no means “doing a small thing in a big way,” but doing a big thing in a big way. When one took a few bites of a rice dumpling and then threw it away, it was not a small thing. As some comrades stated, the discarding of half a rice dumpling involved the question of dili- gence and economy. It was an important matter, bearing on whether or not we cherish the fruit of our peasant brothers’ labor . . .

Why were some young people unable to under- stand this question immediately? Why did they think that because they bought the dumpling with their own money, there was nothing to discuss? Because they did not understand this truth.

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