QUOTABLE IMVES: :

The Maoist Image of President Johnson Red China was quick to inform its people concerning

President Lyndon B. Johnson. On Nov. 23, the day following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the New China News Agency broadcast information about Johnson on Radio Peking’s domestic service. The broad- cast said, in part:

“John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22. Accord- ing to the U.S. Constitution, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took over the presidency . . .

“Johnson represents the interests of the big petroleum merchants and ranchers of the southern United States, and bankers in the north. Politically, he has always been anticommunist, antilabor, antipeople, and has loy- ally served the interests of U.S. monopoly capital. In 1947, he voted in favor of the antilabor Taft-Hartley Law and supported the ‘Marshall Plan.’ . . .

“In 1959, he voted in favor of authorizing the Presi- dent special powers for offering so-called ‘economic aid to socialist countries in East Europe in order to carry out economic penetration. After Kennedy’s assumption of power, Johnson has actively backed up Kennedy’s various reactionary policies and has taken part in mak- ing and implementing these policies.”

Rusk Says Communist Aims Are Unchanged The Soviet Union has not abandoned its aim of world

revolution-and neither has Communist China, Secre- tary of State Dean Rusk said Dec. II in St. Paul. Ad- dressing the Farmers Union Grain Terminal Associa- tion, Rusk said that Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush- chev had stated “on several occasions” that the ideologi- cal struggle will continue.

Rusk said that the United States has recently reached a few limited agreements with the Soviet Union-for a “hot wire” between the White House and the Kremlin, a partial nuclear test-ban treaty, a declaration against placing weapons of mass destruction in orbit, and a broad agreement on principles of law for outer space.

“These are small but useful steps toward peace, but there can be no full and lasting dkente between the Communist states and the free world without settle- ment of critical and dangerous political issues, such as the division of Berlin and Germany, the aggressions against Laos and South Vietnam, and the use of Cuba as a base for subversive a.ctivity in Latin America,” Rusk emphasized.

The secretary of state said that the world would con- tinue to remain a very dangerous place until progress is made in controlling armaments and in reducing the dangers of war from surprise or miscalculation.

He warned that there is not the slightest justification for “relaxing our ;vigilance,” but said that recently there have been significant developments within the Coinmuilist world. Rusk described the quarrel between Soviet Russia-and Communist China as “serious but not a complete break.” He added, “It might be patched up.”

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Red China lists 1963 “Victories” in Asia New China News Agency on Dec. 31 summarized

the Asian Anti-U.S. struggles in 1963 as follows: “ . . . In South Vietnam . . . they [the Communists]

have freed three-quarters of South Vietnam and more than half of the population. . . .

“In Laos . . . faced with the enemy’s armed provoca- tions and disruptive schemes, the Laotian people have rallied more closely around the Neo Lao Haksat, hit back resolutely at the enemy and continually exposed and smashed his political intrigues.

“In North Kalimantan [Borneo] . . . the people’s armed forces persisted in their struggle and continued to deal telling blows to the colonialists.

“This year, the Cambodian people gave a mortal blow to the U.S. plot of subversion by braving struggle and daring to seize victory . . .

“Indonesia has set another example of daring . . . After persevering struggles the Indonesian people have recovered this year its territory, West Irian, which had been under Dutch domination for more than 130 years.

“In defiance of U.S. pressure and threat, the Pakistan government and people firmly deprecated the expan- sionism of the Indian government and developed friendly relations with China and other countries.

“The Ceylon government and people, ignoring the U.S. government’s pressure in the form of suspension of ‘aid,’ has adopted firm measures for the nationalization of foreign petroleum and insurance companies . . .

“The past year saw events in Asia moving ahead in great favor of the peoples of the world and against imperialism . . .”

Chou En-lai Praises ‘Armed Struggle’ in Africa A joint Sino-Albanian statement issued on the occa-

sion of the visit to Albania of Communist China’s Premier Chou En-lai (as a break during his African tour, discussed on pp. 13-14) was reported by the New China News Agency Jan. g, 1964. Concerning the African situation, it reads in part as follows:

“Both parties pay warm tribute to the Algerian people . . . and are happy to see that under the influ- ence of the banner of anti-imperialist armed struggle held aloft by the Algerian people, more and more African peoples have taken the path of armed struggle. Both parties declare their resolute support for the peoples of Angola, ‘Portuguese’ Guinea, Mozambique, Zimbabwa, Zambia, Nyasaland, Gambia, ‘French Somalia, Basutoland, Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Southwest Africa who are fighting heroically for inde- pendence and freedom. They firmly believe that their struggle will surely be crowned with victory. . . .

“Both parties point out that the Asian and African countries are playing an increasingly important role in international affairs. . . . They firmly support all efforts made by these countries to increase their seats in the principal U.N. organs.”

Soviet Critic Lauds. John F. Kennedy Literaturnaya Rossiia, official weekly organ of the

boards of administration of the writers’ union of the Russian Federated Republic and of its Moscow branch, on Nov. 29, 1963 (No. 48)) published a tribute to the late President Kennedy written by the literary critic Victor Shklovsky. It read in part:

“John Kennedy was not always consistent in his policies, did not pursue them to their logical conclu- sions, but he was aware of the destructiveness of war. He was young, because from his memory were not erased the traces left by the speeding torpedo boats in the sea and by the exploding anti-aircraft shells in the sky.

“Goodness is young. Malice is old. “For us the young Kennedy was a man from another

hemisphere, another social order, yet our people share the grief of the American people who have lost their young President.

“He was mourned by almost all the world: “Kennedy had come to Dallas to explain that it is

impossible to poison the air and the water with atomic explosions and racial hatred-impossible to cripple our- selves and generations yet unborn in the name of atomic and racial stubbornness.

“The world is young, yet there is much that is old in it. The earth has not yet healed its wounds, has not outgrown its old malice.

“The President, whose name is associated with the treaty that has blocked the way to radioactive showers and winds, was killed by assassins, not yet discovered (our italics: Ed.) before the eyes of the entire world, even as gangsters kill a passerby-expertly, quickly, senselessly.

“Brave men protect the life of their generation. “Cowards know only how to shoot, because they do

not know the value of life. Their old brains, as light as ping-pong balls, cannot understand the responsibility to time nor the gravity of a crime. They believe only in the stealthy shot from a window or from around the corner.

“The assassins have begun to wash away the trail of their crime with blood.

“The world watched the pin-pricks of racing bright dots on the blue television screen shape images of what went on in another hemisphere! Every day, every hour the blue screen proved the unity of the world. Young Kennedy was killed before the eyes of the whole world.

“People looked at the present and saw the past: they saw murder-the rat’s cunning of some, the panic of others.

LLWe do not believe in the victory of cunning. We believe in the future, in the inevitability of the friend- ship of nations. We respect Lincoln, Edison, Einstein, and we know the value of the scientific and literary glory of thousands of Americans who are creating a culture needed by all.

“We have faith in distant America, whom we know. The nation must not let ,murderers wash away with blood and lies the trail of other murderers. The assas- sins of John Kennedy must be found and tried before the eyes of the Earth.“.

East Germans Blame Right for JFK’s Death Neua Deutschland, the East German Communist

party official organ, on Nov. 25 turned its reports on the assassination of President Kennedy into an orgiastic attack on the American way of life. The East Berlin Radio station Deutschlandsender broadcast the com- ments that evening. Excerpts follow:

“ . . . The land of unlimit- ed opportunities has de& onstrated to the world that even the impossible is pos- sible there . . . that it is the land where murder and as- sassination reign. . . . On Sunday evening Lee Oswald became the victim of a transparent conspiracy. . . .

“Who are these North , Americans who found the

This political cartoon of Netus Deutschland was carried also in The Worker (U.S. Com- munist K-weekly) of Dec. 8, 1963. The caption reads: “The district attorney in Dallas says the assassination of Kemedy is a closed case.”

President’s death so con- venient? What kind of people are these who pro- tect the actual assassin? Who are these gentry who let a police officer be killed because he most likely lmew too much about the instiga- tors of the assassination?

Who are these trigger-happy heroes who torture and annihilate an obviously innocent man because he would not bear false witness? . . . Today every schoolboy knows about Alabama, Birmingham, South Carolina. The Southern States of U.S.A. are well-known reserva- tions of witch-hunting in modern dress. Burning crosses, Lynch law, the murder of Negroes, the dynamiting of churches, primitive race hatred and stupidly arrogant anti-Communism, concentrated in this region, spelled Kennedy’s doom. . . .

“Kennedy became a victim of the Same North Ameri- can freedom which he himself extolled as the ultimate good during the summer of this year in Western Ger- many and West Berlin. It is this kind of freedom that they would like to force upon us with the aid of NATO and the atomic threats of Bonn. For this in all serious- ness they expect us to forfeit our socialist democracy. Nothing doing! . . .”

Radio Cairo Echoes Soviet line on JFK As if irresistably, albeit unwittingly, determined to

demonstrate the truth of Dr. Sigmund Freud’s observa- tion (see p. 6)) Cairo’s Domestic Service intoned in Arabic to the Arab world at 17~00 GMX’ Dec. a:

“Although Kennedy was a big capitalist, his humani- tarianism overcame capitalist selfishness. . . . The savage Zionists and their companies tilled him . . . for the sake of money. Dollars made the Dallas police con- ceal the facts. The Dallas police murdered a black man six years ago because he killed a dog owned by a white, ARAMCO [Arabian American Oil Company] security police have committed many similar atrocities. . . . People throughout the world .were saddened by ,Ken-

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nedy’s death, not because they loved him but because they love peace. They hate the enemies of peace. We Arabs love peace. However, the Zionists, Saudis and oil thieves believe in money alone.”

Thus Communist propaganda, stemming from the Soviet Union, finds its echo in other comers of the globe.

Khrushchev Warns ‘Aggressive Circles’ on Cuba In his peroration at the Dec. 13 plenum of the Cen-

tral Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), N. S. Khrushchev said in part (Pravda, Dec. I 5) :

“Statesmen must, of course, not only correctly under- stand and evaluate the times in which we live, but draw the correct conclusions from this.

“Insofar as aggressive military circles-the “rabid- ones”-would like to stir up war against Cuba and con- sequently start a world war, it is necessary, for the sake of preserving the peace, to put them in a straight-jacket. This, indeed, would be consistency in evaluating the situation in the world and consistency in actions, con- sistency in words and in deeds. (Applause)

“The foreign policy of our Soviet Government is clear and consistent. We are doing and will continue to do all we can to foster the development and the in- creasing strength of the worldwide system of socialism. Implementing the policy of peaceful co-existence of states with a different social order, we shall strive to strengthen universal peace and friendship between na- tions, strengthen the might and security of our great Homeland. The CC, CPSU and the Soviet government will continue to make this foreign policy a reality, knowing that it enjoys the support of all our party, of all our people. (Prolonged applause) ”

Khrushchev ‘Stands (With China) on Main Issue’ Premier Khrushchev’s remarks at the Kremlin recep-

tion held Nov. 7, 1963 on the occasion of the 46th anni- versary of the October (Socialist) Revolution were broadcast by Moscow Radio Nov. 8. Particularly worth noting was this statement:

“We do have disputes and differences with the Chinese comrades. But our main difference is that with capitalism. Although there are differences between us and our Chinese brothers, we stand together on the main issue: We are against capitalism, against land- lordism; we are for socialism and communism.”

CPSU Adheres to ‘Common Revolutionary Cause’ From the resolution adopted unanimously at the Dec.

13 plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) carried in Izvestiia, Dec. 17:

“The success of communist construction in U.S.S.R. is the great contribution of the Leninist party, of the entire Soviet people to the common revolutionary cause of strengthening the world socialist system, to the struggle of the working class of all countries against exploitation and oppression, to the struggle of peoples against imperialism and colonialism, for their liberty and independence. This is our contribution to the

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struggle of peoples for peace throughout the world, for democracy and socialism. The Soviet Union consis- tently carries out the policy of consolidation and strengthening of the collaboration of socialist countries on the basis of fraternal friendship and mutual aid.”

Khrushchev Called Mao ‘Galosh,’ Peking Says A Communist Chinese magazine, Peking Review,

said in its Nov. 29 issue that Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev once called Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung a “worn-out galosh” that should be discarded. The re- port in the official English-language mouthpiece of the Communist Chinese regime underscored the strong personal animosity between the two Communist leaders stemming from the Moscow-Peking political and ide- ological dispute.

The Peking Review article said Khrushchev criticized Mao at the banquet of the political consultative confer- ence of the Warsaw Treaty signatories Feb. I,, 1960.

Mao’s pent-up wrath at such criticism exploded pub- licly several months ago when an official Red Chinese rebuttal of Khrushchev’s peaceful co-existence policies chided the Soviet leader as a “Bible-reading and psalm singing buffoon” and a “laughing stock.”

Mao, who was 70 years old in December, has been reliably reported to rate himself above Khrushchev in- tellectually and as the new, true prophet of Marxism, aiming at the supreme leadership of international com- munism (see “Mao Tse-tung, Ruler of Red China,” Communist Affairs, Vol. I, No. 3, Oct. 1962).

Red China Derides Khrushchev’s Religious Allusions Communist China in November injected a new ele-

ment, Khrushchev’s religious quotations, into the bitter dialogue it has been conducting with the Soviet Union. A portion of the criticism was as follows: “The U.S. imperialists have not become beautiful angels in spite of Khrushchev’s Bible-reading and psalm-smging; they have not turned into compassionate Buddhas in spite of Khrushchev’s prayers and incense-burning.” (New China News Agency broadcast from Radio Peking, Nov. 18).

Khrushchev on Pasternak-Posthumously “Nikolai Gavrilov” (pseudonym of a Soviet writer

known in the West) relates the following incident (re- ported in New Leach-, Dec. g) :

“At the time of the Pastemak Affair, Khrushchev . . . called the poet Aleksandr Tvardovsky and asked: ‘Is this Pastemak a real writer?’

“Tvardovsky replied by asking: ‘Do you think I am?’ “ ‘Of course. I love your poetry,’ Khrushchev said.

“ ‘Well, I don’t even reach up to Pastemak’s knees,’ Tvardovsky told him.

“ ‘Oh, how that Suslov has let me down,’ Khrushchev shouted.

“And Pastemak was rehabilitated-posthumously.”