Editorial
CORRESPONDENCE P r e v a l e n t Cgntctsm Omaha, Neb. To the Editors: Douglas Mattern's 'With Humanity as Pawns" [May 27] had more errors, misstatements and non sequiturs per inch than...
...Strange how he believes the USSR but not NATO...
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...This was the first major press attack on Western European Communist parties that has appeared in months and apparently foreshadows a direct attempt to counter what the Soviet sees as a dangerous heresy...
...As Congressman Les Aspin states, "it pro(Continued on page 511) NEWS & VIEWS: 482 CORRESPONDENCE: 483 EDITORIAL" 488 WASRINGTON REPORT: Down i n Flames: Frank Getlein 484 CASANOVA'S LAW: Cokie Roberts 48G PAPADILE CARDINAL DENELLI: Desmond O'Grady 488 ON TRE ROAD: Abigail McCm'thy 480 THE AMERICAN DREAM: Jiirgen Moltraann 400 A PEOPLE'S PARISH: Michael True 406 TRE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...To the Editors: Douglas Mattern's 'With Humanity as Pawns" [May 27] had more errors, misstatements and non sequiturs per inch than Ramparts in its heyday...
...The late Baltic States...
...And in a defiant counterattack, the official statement of the Spanish Communist party flatly rejected the Soviet criticisms and pledged itself to continue its Eurocommunism line of independence...
...North Korea...
...But there is no doubt that a series of nationalistic Communist schisms would be highly embarrassing and dangerous to the USSR...
...We should remember that if Mr...
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...As for Spanish Communist leader Santiago Carrillo, the New Times said he "has lately spoken of our country and our party in terms that even the most reactionary writers do not often venture to use...
...Commonweal is Indexed in Reader's Guide fo Periodical Literature...
...Appleyard, Linda Kuehl, loseph H. Fichter 507 ILLUSTRATION: Front cover: B. Plympton/LNS, adapted...
...Stalinism--as a conception of the state, the dictatorship of one group----is still very much alive in the Soviet Union...
...It was against this background that Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance recently discussed the question of possible Communist electoral advances in Western Europe...
...100|6 Telephone: (21.2) MU 3-2942 A review of Public Affairs...
...Poland...
...No one knows, of course, whether the Communist parties of Western Europe would in fact live up to their present democratic pledges once they were in powermmore particularly, once it looked as if they might lose that power...
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...Catholic Periodical Index, and Eoek Review Digest...
...The others have good reason to be hostile, but I doubt that the Soviets feel very threatened...
...Mlcrcrlflms from Vol...
...Analysis of Eurocommunism, said the New Times, revealed that this phenomenon was designed to set the parties in Western Europe at odds with those in Eastern Europe and to discredit countries, primarily the Soviet Union, that Commonweal: 483 have already established a new society...
...Who are those "hostile neighbors" "surrounding" the USSR and forcing her to spend money on "strictly defensive purposes...
...1, and it has been trying to reassert its supremacy ever since...
...The Pentagon is not "the only branch of government which has an office directly in the Congressional Office Building (sic...
...Oh yes, NATO is "hostile" as well, though it claims its expenditures are for defensive purposes...
...Hungary...
...WASHIHGTOH REPORT llll DOWN IN FLAMES You could have knocked me down with a ten-billiondollar cost-overrun...
...The stakes are high...
...But the USSR has never been happy with a policy that did not clearly leave it No...
...Inevitably this effort carried with it the suggestion that these Communist parties would no longer look to the USSR for direction, that the Kremlin would no longer speak with total authority...
...Brezhnev views President Carter's stress on human rights as antiSoviet psychological warfare, as he obviously does, the rise of Eurocommunism will seem even more of a threat to the continuance of the Soviet system...
...The Civil Service Commission (those warmongers) and the Veterans Administration (ditto) also have been given space on Capitol Hill for the same reasons space was given to the Department of Defense: constituent service...
...Costs too much and we don't need it...
...Thus Moscow signaled what seems destined to be a major new campaign to tighten ideological controls and compel total subservience by the Western parties...
...300 N. Zoeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mich...
...For the first time since the arms race began in earnest, way back there with ole Dot: Teller, the really unthinkable thought has been not merely thought but spoken, acted upon...
...Mongolia...
...A year ago in East Berlin, Moscow formally if reluctantly joined the other Communist parties in endorsing the right of each one to pursue an independent path...
...Japan...
...It is easy to see his reasoning...
...Now the signs are that a comparably significant event is developing in the relations between the Soviet Union and the Communist parties of Western Europe...
...Yet here was the alltime centerpiece of government military handouts scrapped with a single word at a brief press conference: Nope, we're not gonna make the B-1...
...400 'EXPORTING DEATR TO IRELAND': An Exchange o f Views: 500 LOOKING AT AMERICA: Dennis O'Brien 502 VEIII~E: Sister Ellen Murphy 504 SEXUAL CRITERIA BY COMMITTEE: Ralph Mclnerny 505 BOOKS: Patrick Samway, J.A...
...The shovel has been hung back up on the Treasury wall and there'll be slim pickings at the military chuck wagon in the long cold winter ahead...
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...U.sing a personal rebuke of the leader of the Spanish Communist party as a platform, an authoritative editorial in the Soviet foreign affairs weekly New Times made a broad attack on what has come to be called Eurocommunism, saying that the concept of independent parties in Western Europe was designed to split the international Communist movement...
...Emotionally involved as we must inevitably be, common sense demands that in this matter the United States maintain a calm distance and a low profile...
...or just China...
...A recruit earns $377 a month, not $83...
...COMING: Margo Hammond writes from Rome on the possibilities of revising the Concordat of 1929 between the Vatican and Italy...
...Eurocommunism i's a term coined to cover the efforts of the Communist parties of France, Italy and Spain to achieve at least an appearance of independence and commitment to democratic methods in order to allay voter fears...
...Although the United States would prefer that democratic governments persist in the Western European nations, he said, he believed that Communist party election victories in that region might ultimately create more problems for the Soviet bloc than for the Atlantic alliance...
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...A Frenchman, Italian or Spaniard under a Communist regime might be no more free than a Russian today...
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...Brushing aside the Soviet attack, Spanish party leader Carrillo compared it to "excommunication by the Holy Office...
...In this growing controversy between the USSR and the Western Communist parties, what should be the role of the United States...
...For Spain and for other capitalist societies'with similar characteristics, the way called Eurocommunism offers the only valid alternative for the advance to socialism," said the official party reaction...
...Similar statements appeared in Italy and France, while the already independent Yugoslav party said that attacks on the Communist parties in Western Europe were inspired by "Stalinist conceptions...
...Noone one point: the pay scale for a U.S...
...When its ideological supremacy is threatened, the Soviet regime itself is bound to feel threatened--and rightly so...
...LItcrafure and the Arts...
...However with a Russian recruit receiving less than one ruble per week, this even better demonstrates the false figures when converting dollars to rubies...
...A real possibility exists that a further break-up in the once monolithic Communist structure is imminent, and this is too hopeful an opportunity for any rash interference on our part to be allowed to imperil it...
...Questioned about Soviet motives, he said: "I think it is due to the fact that Stalinism is still very much alive...
...The USSR cannot like the idea of a whole series of new Titos across the face of Europe, independent of Soviet control...
...Reply I will grant Mr...
...Simply that of an outside observer man interested observer, of course, but no more than that...
...The reaction by these parties is therefore significant...
...Czechoslovakia...
...JAMES O'GARA: ld/for JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor RAYMOND A. SCHROYH: Associate Editor ANNE M. ROEERTSON, Editorial Assistant COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry FRANK GEYLEIN: Wasklngfon BRIAN WICKER...
...Atghanistan...
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...Soviet claims to legitimacy as far as the countries of Eastern Europe are concerned, and even at home, are dependent on its being the great Motherland of socialism and the ultimate fount of socialist truth for all other Communist parties and countries throughout the world...
...Can your readers understand why his kind of simplistic reasoning--from the right or left-----causes the "prevalent cynicism" he decries...
...Rumania...
...The Pardoner was first into print bemoaning the loss 5 August 1977:484...
...MICHAEL F. NOONE JR...
...Finland...
...I hope so...
...Army recruit should have read approximately $83 per week, not per month...
...I never expected to see in my lifetime an American President say No to the military on anything more important than a duck-hunting trip at the expense of the arms merchants...
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...Great Erifain ALAIN WOODROW: Paris HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome DESMOND FISHER: Dublin EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher Staff: LiNDA F. KAYLER, PAMELA J. FITZGERALD, HARRiETTE EALSKY COMMONWEAL 23~ MADISON AVE., NEW YORK...
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...1, 1924, to date available through University Microglms...
...Turkey...
...Canada...
...Khrushchev's famous speech denouncing the sins of Stalinism was a milestone in the history of the Communist party...
...Iran...
...it must be those 100,000 voluntary signatures on the Stockholm peace petition...
Vol. 104 • August 1977 • No. 16
