Reports from Correspondents of the New York Times
REPORTS FROM CORRESPONDENTS OF The Nem Book Times. WASHINGTON IRAQ'S NEW REGIME February 11 — The Administration's decision to recognize the new regime in Iraq was made within 72 hours of...
...The reason appears to be connected with one of the most interesting sociological features of the Soviet system: the tendency of local officials to band together to protect each other and to share the spoils from the State...
...But the impression in Washington was that this Arab nationalism would not necessarily extend to exceptionally close ties with President Abdel Gamal Nasser of the United Arab Republic...
...Although there is officially expressed satisfaction in Moscow about Western disunity, certain qualms also have been felt by Soviet officials about the evolution of President de Gaulle's policies within the last two weeks...
...For millions of Soviet citizens the State's property—theoretically the property of all citizens—is fair game...
...We want such relations as are appropriate to Socialist countries...
...The discrepancy between France and Britain will make these two powers more accessible to third states that up to now were kept waiting...
...as compared with 47 per cent in 1957...
...Another saw the fighting in South Vietnam as a "just cause of national liberation against United States imperialism...
...Ehrenburg's memoirs are being serialized in Novy Mir, a liberal literary monthly...
...In addition, it called on the peoples of all African and Asian countries to "exert pressure" on their governments to end all existing treaties with Israel and to prevent the signing of any new ones...
...Every day men switched sides—out of fear, because of pressure or promises or because they felt a showdown would mean civil war...
...The situation has domestic political, international political, and military implications of tremendous importance...
...Communist propaganda has constantly painted West Germany as a haven for former Nazis, and the East German regime appeared extremely embarrassed at finding a former Nazi SS Officer in its own hierarchy...
...Taleb Hussein Shabib, the new Foreign Minister, has emphasized that the regime would guarantee the safety of U.S...
...Quoting from his memoirs, Ehrenburg wrote: "I, an old man and Party writer, know that the idea [of Communism] is so strong that there were Communists who told our people and the whole world about past crimes...
...As more foreign diplomats than usual call at the Santa Cruz Palace and the Spanish Foreign Service gains a new self-reliance, the following main trends of Spanish international policy can be discerned: • The Government is preparing a voluminous file for formal talks with Washington to renegotiate the 10-yearold accord providing U.S...
...Replying, Yermilov denied any intention of insulting Ehrenburg...
...Some of them were Kim's superiors in rank and had commanded divisions in combat while he was a junior officer...
...The papers called for action on a treaty banning nuclear tests and for disarmament...
...Aleksandr Mirilenko...
...and has been, a strongly held base for aggressive Communism— a military training school for Latin American cadres...
...Such crime is of course not new, but the public attention paid to it in recent years suggests that it has sharply increased in the post-Stalin period...
...Madrid wants to renew the agreement—but with the possibility of transforming it into something like an alliance...
...There are two other deductions drawn by military men...
...In addition, Soviet citizens are encouraged to report evidence of wrongdoing...
...Tell me, how did it happen that you survived?' What could I reply...
...and this extra caution is likely to affect production adversely...
...In justification of this approach...
...Tito asserted Yugoslavia had no need to change its policy of "cooperation and friendship with all countries regardless of social system...
...Anti-aircraft missiles include 24 different operational sites—a total of more than 500 missiles, apparently of the SAM (surface to air) I and II types...
...a 51-year-old writer, recently protested against "being counted like chickens" on a tourist trip to the United States...
...In the last decades of Stalin's rule, the secret police and its nation-wide network of informers kept watch everywhere for this sort of crime as well as for evidence of political disloyalty...
...Kim's comrades, who made the revolution, watched as month by month his organization reached deeper into the political and economic life of the country...
...The formidable forces—all manned by Russians, with perhaps some Cubans in a "learner"' status—are backed up by Fidel Castro's armed forces of perhaps 75.000 to 125,000 well-armed regulars, well equipped with modern small arms, mortars, field artillery, rocket launchers, armored personnel carriers and tanks, and by perhaps 200,000 to 250,000 militiamen and home guard of considerably less effectiveness...
...Both parents are Party members, and the son was in the Komsomol (Young Communist League...
...A tank can be used offensively or defensively...
...Officials emphasize that Spain above all feels its "responsibility for the defense of the West...
...In 1958 Washington waited 20 days to recognize the Kassim Government after it was organized following the anti-royalist revolution...
...The latest installment, recently published, takes the account through the first year of the Soviet Union's involvement in World War II...
...The present forces include four armored groups (reenforced battalions), complete with tanks and guns...
...Foreign observers are inclined to explain the incidents in the light of curbs on Soviet citizens for travel abroad...
...Stating that his talks in Moscow had been devoted primarily to the question of how to avoid conflicts in the future, he said: "I know I cannot shut the mouth of every man in Yugoslavia who is not a friend of Socialism and prevent him from blabbing out various things...
...He admitted one reason for continuing cooperation with all countries was that it would be to the advantage of the Communist world...
...One of the young men jailed in Georgia was said to have belonged to a poetry reading group that "read bad verse that had been rejected by all editorial offices...
...In Georgia, according to the newspaper Zarya Vostoka, two men aged 29 and 30 were sentenced to 6-10 years respectively on similar charges...
...The incident threw fresh light on the widespread involvement of a whole generation of Germans in the Nazi movement...
...Although the newspapers present such persons as the "dregs of society," it is admitted that they often come from good families in which the parents are members of the Communist party...
...A "compromise" has been suggested that Kim reorganize the party to give more strength to his opponents...
...ILLEGAL DEPARTURES February 6—Attempts of Soviet citizens to leave the country illegally by sneaking across the border have been receiving increasing attention recently in the press...
...Other resolutions pledged "moral and material support to the African people of Southern Rhodesia...
...We must fight them, not only administratively [i.e...
...But the conference sidestepped the touchy issue of Communist China's invasion of India...
...They watched Kim move, both directly and through his agents, and noted his "advice" in every field of government from finance to foreign affairs...
...Were this pace to continue for the remaining seven years of the 1960s...
...nor is a special amphibioustype ship required to transport tanks or other equipment from Cuba to other Latin American countries...
...There is apprehension expressed here that West Germany, which Moscow pictures as its most aggressive Western opponent, will influence France toward some adventure in Eastern Europe...
...Communist party units have always had such duties...
...said Oscar Kamdona, Tanganyika's Minister of Home Affairs and the conference chairman...
...At least 200 radar stations line the coasts and control the planes and missile batteries...
...In a few months time it is expected to be operating not only in every factory, farm and mine but in every apartment house, hospital and school...
...To us, such expressions of sympathy are unnecessary...
...A Senate subcommittee, headed by Senator John Stennis (D.Miss...
...And judging by revelations made in recent years, this kind of crime occurs at all levels of society...
...Questioning Ehrenburg's professed conviction that he had to live through the purges with "teeth clenched," Yermilov wrote that there were many in the '30s who "fought—and not by silence...
...Ehrenburg was also criticized for having written that during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 he resented having to give up "the concept of freedom that we inherited from the 19th century...
...But Western diplomats here think it is unlikely that the Kremlin will immediately attempt to exploit Western differences by provoking a crisis because Soviet leaders have learned that pressure only tends to unify the Western allies...
...Except for this...
...S. WRITER PROTESTS 'INSULT' February 5—Ilya Ehrenburg has complained in a letter to Izvestia that he has been "insulted as a man and as a Soviet citizen" by Vladimir V. Yermilov...
...He was also said to have overruled some of Stalin's decisions...
...The action also ended Bartsch's short-lived career as chairman of the State Agricultural Council...
...The indicated increase in economic crimes appears to have been an unanticipated result of the moves taken since Stalin's death to curb the power of the secret police and the resources at its command...
...According to the captions, several of the pictures of Khrushchev appeared in the press for the first time...
...The chief concern stems from the conclusion between France and West Germany of a treaty of close cooperation in foreign affairs, military and cultural matters...
...This was pointed up by the fact that U.S...
...Against this background, the new Party-State Control Committee, with units everywhere, appears to be an effort to reintroduce the essence of the old system...
...They sought to leave the country by swimming to a foreign tanker in the Black Sea port of Batumi, but were spotted by the harbor patrol...
...Judging from past Soviet experience, it seems likely that the Committees will be inundated not only by justly based accusations but also by false charges concocted because of personal grievances...
...Communist-ruled capitals regardless of any other considerations...
...Ehrenburg said in effect: "As I have thought, I will continue so to think...
...One official said that the factions no longer really trusted each other, and that one side or another would one day be tempted to settle the dispute by force...
...The Administration's attempt, through Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's two-hour televised press conference, to refute Republican charges of a new arms build-up in Cuba did not end the debate...
...However, he insisted it would maintain the "principle of closest cooperation with the Socialist countries, which is self-evident because ours is a Socialist country...
...There are more than 100 Soviet aircraft in Cuba, including 42 supersonic MIG-21 fighter-interceptors...
...on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Northern Tanganyika...
...The situation in our cultural and moral-political life is not as we would like it to be and as would correspond to our Socialist community...
...Something like 300,000 men—army, navy, air force and marines—were mobilized last fall for use if necessary in that phase of the Cuban crisis...
...But the organization showed that Kim's handpicked secretariat would control the party completely and would probably control any new government...
...The organization has the jaw-breaking name of the "Party State Control Committee of the Communist Party Central Committee and of the Council of Ministers of the USSR...
...Where key people are involved, it will require great courage for anyone to squeal and face the consequences...
...Two thirds of the delegates to the conference were either from Communist countries or were leaders of Communist parties and organizations in their countries...
...Spain is seeking improvement of its relations with Morocco, and is examining the chances for a diplomatic initiative in Latin America and the Middle East...
...Describing his preparations for the flight...
...At the same time, several difficulties also seem plain...
...According to Izvestia...
...of only half that claimed for the entire 195762 period...
...U-2 aircraft over Cuba last fall...
...At 11:30 every night a warning siren shrieks and the streets are filled with people hurrying home...
...But without the secret police and its informers the system prevailing in the post-Stalin period seems to have worked poorly...
...Premier Khrushchev—has given every evidence that it is serious about this drive and prepared to devote great resources and efforts to curbing rampant dishonesty...
...total...
...The Committees also can turn over evidence to legal authorities for prosecution...
...The prospect of French-West German cooperation has dispelled vague hopes held by some Soviet officials of an eventual rapprochement with a Gaullist France that would act independently of the U.S...
...Kim's opponents decided he had to be stopped...
...Amid cheers and applause, the 400 delegates from 60 countries simultaneously condemned Britain and France for "persisting" in supplying arms and military equipment to the South African Government...
...The illegal activity is known to many ordinary people, but most of them keep quiet for fear of retribution...
...Soviet industrial output at the heginning of 1970 would be only about 85 per cent that of the U.S., rather than over 100 per cent...
...The antagonisms that have been aroused in the West by de Gaulle's opposition to the entry of Britain have tended to rekindle the faith of some Russians in the Marxist-Leninist analysis of the development of Western Europe, which previously had been auestioned...
...Giving the back of his hand to those in the West unwilling to believe the Yugoslavs would voluntarily abandon the advantages of their independent stance, Tito declared: "Other people's flatteries, which very often come from various sides and allege we have a special Socialism with nationalist characteristics that is rather accessible and sympathetic even for non-Socialist countries, also should be alien to us...
...Still another factor, which is undoubtedly under discussion in the Stennis subcommittee, is whether or not policy—the conviction fully expressed at top levels of government last summer and early fall that "it can't happen here" (i.e., that the Russians would never emplace offensive missiles in Cuba)—dominated intelligence evaluations...
...We want a truly Socialist society...
...No Westerner knows, for no comprehensive figures on the frequency and magnitude of such economic misdeeds are published...
...Despite the fact that Abdul Salam Arif, the new Provisional President, is an admirer of Nasser and that he obtained air support in 1958 for the anti-royalist revolution, the view here tended to draw an image of an Iraq friendly to the Nasserites but insistent on full political independence...
...But in that case, critics have the right to write about some of Ehrenburg's wrong tendencies and positions...
...So did the old Ministry of State control, which bore seme resemblance to the United States General Accounting Office...
...since 1957 was in the early part of this period...
...Soviet Government propaganda media hailed the "breakdown" of the negotiations at Brussels for the entry of Britain into the Common Market...
...In a typical situation, a factory director and some of his subordinates decide to enrich themselves by diverting some of their production to the private market, where it is sold and the proceeds divided among the conspirators...
...Most Soviet travel is in groups...
...an early interest in stamp collecting led young Mirilenko into correspondence with foreign collectors, some of whom wrote that philately was a "good business" in the West...
...The Soviet Union has been giving unusual publicity to the anniversary, with celebrations in the once embattled city which is now called Volgagrad, release of documentary film of the battle using Soviet and German newsreels, and newspaper and radio interviews with former soldiers and officers...
...Soviet industrial output apparently has been rising as expected, but Khrushchev appears to have assumed a slower rate of U.S...
...Park wavered for a time, but then made it clear that, essentially, he backed Kim...
...Evidently aware of the questions in the public mind concerning his own part under the Stalinist terror, Ehrenburg wrote: "One young writer who was five years old in 1938 recently asked me: 'May I ask you a question...
...Indications were that the new regime was a combination of the Socialist Ba'ath party leadership and of military and civilian nationalists...
...Kim's chief opponent...
...Viktor P. Nekrasov...
...But he appears to have become convinced that he has no alternative in view of the leakage of resources from the far-flung and complex economic system.—Harry Schwartz CUBAN DEBATE February 7—A picture of a once peaceful island ringed with Communist radar and coast defenses has emerged from the Cuban debate in Washington...
...They are supplemented by 12 converted Soviet motor torpedo boats, which can fire two anti-ship missiles each at ranges of from 10-15 nautical miles...
...Yet, on balance, it would be surprising if the organization did not succeed in tightening up Soviet life somewhat, and discouraging at least the most flagrant economic crimes...
...So far the struggle for power within the South Korean Government, which has made this an uneasy city by night, has passed without arrests and without bloodshed...
...The extensive Russian effort there makes no sense from Moscow's point of view unless the USSR intends to utilize Cuba as a political and psychological entry point into the Western Hemisphere, a base for subversion and covert or small military operations, and as a political pawn on the chessboard of international conflict.—Hanson W. Baldwin 'CATCHING UP WITH THE U.S.' February 4—Recently published official Soviet data indicate that the Russians are running well behind Premier Khrushchev's schedule for catching up with the United States in industrial production...
...The domestic clamor may force further actions against Cuba or Moscow...
...The opportunities for slander and false accusation are enormous...
...Ever since the coup that established the Junta of army officers as the South Korean Government, Kim has been a man respected and feared in the country...
...Spain's Foreign Ministry...
...In a lengthy review, the 72-year-old writer was charged with being "unethical" in his decision to be silent in the 1930s, though avowedly aware of the injustice of the police terror...
...The Ministry of Finance and the Soviet banking system have also been charged with similar responsibility...
...Most of all it is a story of Brigadier General Chong Pil Kim, a slender man of 37 with a taste for power and a genius for organization, who went a little too far a little too quickly...
...Robert Conley SEOUL FOUR HOURS OF TENSION January 30—The nervous times in Seoul are the cold and silent hours between midnight and 4 o'clock in the morning...
...Their interest in the West is related to meetings with foreign tourists, visits to foreign exhibitions, listening to foreign radio stations and exposure to Western-oriented forms in art and literature...
...The Yugoslav chief also indicated there would be a further retreat from liberalization in Yugoslav life as a part of the new approach...
...Kim had presented them with a quietly organized political party that was supposed to be the Junta's tool for taking over as the civilian government after the spring elections...
...Even Communist party leaders near the top of the hierarchy have been exposed diverting the State's money and material for their own purposes...
...Vladimir V. Yermilov, in effect called for greater candor when he said: "Apparently Ehrenburg had great advantages over the overwhelming majority of ordinary Soviet people who in those years had no doubt of the righteousness of the action of their leaders...
...Marine Lieutenant General Kim Dong Ha, has so far refused to come to terms and accept an offer as the figurehead chairman of the new party...
...The basic reason for the organization is the need to fight the prevalence of what Soviet authorities call "economic crimes...
...Although the Ba'ath party's program calls for nationalization of the means of production, there was no concern here over the fate of the Anglo-American oil industry in Iraq...
...Many officials will be moved to lean over backward to avoid even a suspicion that they are doing something illegal...
...Memorial articles by participants of the battle hailed the "iron logic" of the Premier, who was a member of Stalin's Politburo and the War Council of the Stalingrad front...
...A second factor is the resilience of the mutualprotection cliques so widespread in Soviet society...
...The door of the exclusive club is half-open...
...Any accusation—both false and correct—will probably be ventilated in public before all facts are known, thus arousing resentment, ill will and confusion...
...Ehrenburg repeated his contention that many people under Stalin doubted the guilt of suspected friends but that no one, contrary to Yermilov's assertions, rose in public meetings to defend victims of the purges...
...casualties will mount...
...It quashed an Indian demand for a resolution urging Peking to accept "without reservation" the Colombo proposals for settling the border dispute...
...The Administration hopes that the Iraqi rebellion will favorably alter the Middle Eastern situation and lead to improved relations with the U.S...
...space tracking station on Zanzibar...
...They do this by simple theft, embezzlement, falsifying accounts, and every other means they can devise...
...The newspaper said in an editorial note, "Well, that is his right...
...Officials here also noted that only four of the 20 cabinet figures in the new Government were military men...
...With remarkable candor...
...There is no way of checking, for instance, whether or not nuclear weapons are being brought into Cuba by the weekly non-stop Soviet airline flight from Moscow, and even ship cargoes cannot be checked until a lapse of time after unloading...
...The real unknown is whether U.S...
...Among the moves that are unofficially reported to be under consideration here is the establishment of consular relations with Israel, which Spain does not now formally recognize...
...Paul Hoffmann BERLIN EAST GERMAN NAZI DISMISSED February 10—The East German regime has dismissed Professor Karl Heinz Bartsch, a junior member of the Communist Politburo, from his Party and Government positions because it was discovered he had once been a member of the elite Nazi SS combat troops...
...In their cases, doting parents were blamed for having spoiled them and having failed to bring them up in a spirit of patriotism.—T.S...
...Twelve hundred of Kim's agents had organized the party and fashioned a neatly carpentered machine...
...The full story of the continuing crisis remains hidden, but piece by piece much of it has come to be known...
...He insisted that most Soviet people were unaware of the injustice of the purges, and charged that Ehrenburg "is insulting a whole generation of Soviet people in trying to protect himself.'"—T...
...Western observers have pointed out that even if taken at face value, these figures indicate that Soviet industrial output, a fraction of the U.S...
...If the Communist military power in Cuba is further consolidated and strengthened, more than this number may be necessary in the future should we be forced to invade the island and overthrow Castro...
...Tito also admitted there were still some things on which Belgrade and Moscow did not see eye to eye...
...EHRENBURG ATTACKED January 29—Ilya Ehrenburg has been accused by Izvestia, the Government newspaper, of having "simplified" the Stalinist purges in his memoirs...
...Yugoslav policy, both internal and external, will be aimed at maintaining close relations with Moscow and other Eastern European...
...This has been a crisis caused not by rival philosophies bui by personalities and tempers, which cannot be neatly tabulated and predicted...
...That implies for the last two years a rate of gain on the U.S...
...On Ehrenburg's views concerning 19th century freedom, Yermilov said: "The concept of genuine freedom in the 19th century was formulated by Marx and Engels...
...S. TANGANYIKA 'SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE' February II—The third Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Conference has ended in unanimous support for the use of violence in South Africa...
...These are roughly equivalent to Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules rockets, and SAM-II has an altitude capability of about 80,000 feet...
...Millions of people are being organized into an economic police force, requiring them to expend energy and time that might otherwise be used for productive purposes...
...The SAM-III, which is an anti-aircraft missile system specially designed against hedge-hopping or low-flying aircraft, was not mentioned...
...This may be true, though his enemies do not believe that he is the kind of man who can live and work with men who have fought him publicly...
...WARSAW TITO'S GOALS January 30—Yugoslavia's President Tito has finally clearly declared he intends to take his country almost all the way back to the Soviet bloc...
...European discord will persuade the United States to strengthen its old alliances in this Continent...
...Nothing is heard except now and then the bawling of a drunk being carted away by the police...
...The Junta, which had presented a picture of unity, split wide open...
...It is a story of clashing ambitions, of grievance of rank and position...
...It predicted that the Common Market would become a closed economic grouping that would turn into a dangerous competitor for the United States...
...Real power tends to be concentrated in a few hands...
...The initial evaluation here of Iraq's revolutionary regime was that it was perhaps the first truly Arab nationalist government the country has ever had...
...This weapon, roughly equivalent to the U.S...
...military installations in Spain...
...Like other critics of Ehrenburg, Yermilov also questioned the author's defense of modernist trends in the arts and literature which are now under attack by the Communist leadership...
...Especially in literature and art generally there is much that is alien and incompatible with our Socialist ethics, much that tries to turn the course of our development from the line defined in the revolution...
...Ehrenburg declined to enter into arguments about the contents of his memoirs, saying he supported the view that "anything an author wanted to say he said in his book...
...The rift in the West has come at a time when Moscow had adopted a cautious foreign policy because of its ideological dispute with Peking, the Cuban reversal and internal economic difficulties...
...there will be four hours of tension in Seoul every night.—A...
...Now, in theory, if a citizen complains to the local Control Committee, work can begin immediately to check up on and expose the wrongdoers...
...the young Ukrainian, comes from what the newspaper called an "intelligent" family...
...The Soviet Government—and in particular...
...Bribes are given to local Party and law-enforcement officials...
...Young Mirilenko's counterparts in Georgia equipped themselves with aqualungs and rubber-fins in their attempt to reach the offshore tanker...
...It also attacked Israel as a "dangerous tool of neo-colonialism" and assailed the United Nations as a "vehicle for American imperialism...
...The net results of the Administration's detailed presentations probably will add to, rather than subtract from, the political clamor, since the Pentagon is now in the position of verifying most—if not all —- of the opposition's statements...
...They saw their own power being eaten away by Kim and the "young colonels" around him...
...Soviet theorists now take the line that the capitalist economies have advanced to a stage where competition is among the blocs rather than individual countries...
...To prevent frustration by mutual-protection groups of officials, the local Committees are composed of many types of citizens...
...However, he maintained that these issues "will be eliminated by practice...
...One of these shot down a U.S...
...The real question, however, is whether the gains likely to be made will be worth their great cost...
...The tracking station was alleged to be a "rocket base...
...By spring, when it should be fully manned, it should have millions of agents listening and watching for wrongdoing everywhere in the country...
...It is argued that a downward economic spiral will be caused by cut-throat competition among the closed European economic blccs and the U.S.—Seymour Topping...
...Passports for individual travel are granted relativelv rarely, even to persons found loyal after a thorough security check...
...industrial production will continue last year's spurt, or whether the 1962 gains will be canceled out soon by another downturn in the business cycle...
...Tito laid down this line in a series of public statements published in the Yugoslav press and available here since his return from a visit to the Soviet Union last month...
...The international implications are obvious...
...On South Africa, the conference specifically supported a "resolution of the African people of South Africa to add violence to their methods of struggle" against the Government's policy of apartheid...
...Until they do believe it...
...This time, though, the new organization is to be completely public, with its functions and powers clearly delineated...
...Actually the Soviet claims apparently show that the U.S., with a 7 per cent increase, widened its industrial production lead over the Soviet Union last year...
...Officials here were somewhat surprised that the Soviet Union also hurriedly recognized the rebel Government, which is led by a civilian-military group whose revolutionary objectives include the elimination of Sovet and Communist influence in Iraq...
...His father works in the culture department of a provincial administration and his mother is a school teacher...
...WASHINGTON IRAQ'S NEW REGIME February 11 — The Administration's decision to recognize the new regime in Iraq was made within 72 hours of the coup that overthrew President Abdul Karim K.assim...
...The secret police, of course, was never the only instrument for seeking to prevent and detect fraud, theft and related misdeeds...
...There is apparently also a minority view among some Soviet specialists who contend it would be advisable to have Britain in the Common Market as a counterbalance to West Germany...
...quoted in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, said Khrushchev originated the plan in November 1942 to stem the attacks of the German relief force commanded by Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein before turning against von Paule's encircled troops...
...These sources concede that Spain welcomes recent French overtures for closer relations but will not allow itself to be maneuvered into a position of antagonism to the United States and Great Britain...
...citizens and interests in the country, including the oil industry.—Tad Szulc NEW YORK SOVIET ECONOMIC CRIMES February 3—A new watchdog organization has begun operating in the Soviet Union...
...Around Christmas time...
...However, he added an ominous note: "But we have the right, both myself and the people, to stop those who are doing this constantly from doing so...
...Though both Secretary of Defense McNamara and CIA Director John A. McCone stated their conviction "beyond reasonable doubt" that all "offensive" missiles and bombers were withdrawn from Cuba last fall, there were significant qualifications—particularly in the McCone statement...
...The memoirs have aroused wide interest among intellectuals because of Ehrenburg's intimate recollection of known persons and events...
...A desire for continued economic collaboration with Britain is underlined by a recent visit to London by the Minister of Industry, Gregorio Lopez Bravo...
...The Soviet Foreign Ministry organized a trip for foreign newsmen to tour Stalingrad battle sites and take part in memorial events...
...Cuba today is...
...We are not going to accept the enemies chosen for us by others...
...S. MADRID NEW DIPLOMATIC MOOD February 1—A new bouyancy prevails these days at the ornate Santa Cruz Palace...
...Data for the early 1960s suggests an even worse picture for the Russians, since most of the gain that Soviet industry has made on the U.S...
...A similar suggestion was attached to the Soviet Government's decision two years ago to impose the death penalty for large-scale crimes of this kind...
...Their policies were believed to emphasize Socialism and strong anti-Communism at home and a "quiet" neutralism in foreign affairs, in contrast with the open sympathies for the Soviet Union that characterized the Kassim regime...
...The only thing he apparently balks at is the final step—actual membership in the bloc's military alliance and economic organization...
...McCone qualified his confidence of the withdrawal by asserting that all such weapons "known to be in Cuba" were withdrawn...
...Moreover, the statements thus far have offered too little and come too late to dispel the belief of many observers that the Administration withheld, minimized or "managed" some of the facts about Cuba last fall...
...The coast defense missiles, in four operational sites, with enough missiles for perhaps 15 more sites, are cruise-type or winged missiles—apparently controlled by radar—with a range of 30 to 40 nautical miles...
...How significant is this crime for the Soviet economy overall...
...After long diplomatic isolation, the Spanish Foreign Service is savoring the heady experience of being courted and consulted by many capitals...
...Newspapers published photographs showing Khrushchev with defenders of Volga City and addressing a public meeting on February 4, 1942, two days after Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus had capitulated with 90,000 German survivors...
...Abdulaziz Watari, the new Oil Minister, is believed to be pro-Western in his views...
...I said at the beginning of this book that I lived in an era when the fate of man resembled not so much a chess game as a lottery...
...Army Hawk, apparently has not been installed in Cuba since the Pentagon briefing described—incorrectly in the opinion of experts—"conventional antiaircraft guns" as the "best weapons against low-flying planes," and a photograph showing Russians manning such guns was produced...
...And U.S...
...The growing intimacy with the French and West German governments is finding expression in consultations on several levels of civilian and military affairs...
...By prearrangement, Britain announced its recognition a few hours earlier...
...Izvestia described an 18-yearold Ukrainian who became interested in the West through stamp collecting and was caught last November trying to slip across the frontier into Turkey...
...Spanish diplomats say their instructions are to seek the maximum advantages for their nation from the present international situation without increasing Western disunity...
...At a time when Algeria is announcing increased support for the anti-Portuguese rebels in Angola, Spain is showing interest in the regime of Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella...
...So far this compromise has not been fully worked out or implemented...
...In a statement published by ADN, the East German Press Agency, and in Neues Deutschland, the main Party newspaper, Bartsch admitted his membership in the ranks of the SS and said he had kept silent because he was "afraid of repercussions...
...Asserting that the march of events showed the decision to be correct...
...Bartsch, who is a professor of agriculture, had been elected a "candidate member" of the Politburo earlier this month at the Sixth Party Congress...
...Madrid is cultivating its alliance with Lisbon by exchanges of official visits, but is cautiously developing its own anti-colonialist line toward Africa...
...In nearly every resolution the tone was that of invective and the enemy was the U.S...
...The new organization has been given very high prestige—its head is Aleksandr N. Shelepin, a Secretary of the Communist partv and one of the fastest rising stars in the Soviet hierarchy—and great powers...
...One is that the seeing eye of the aerial camera, skillfully used, can reveal a great deal of above-ground military information, but is of no use against subterranean installations...
...of Communism...
...The Socialist Unity (Communist) party's Central Committee announced it had expelled Bartsch from its ranks because he had caused the Party "Great Damage" by keeping silent about his membership in the SS...
...A majority of 24 Junta members went to Park and demanded Kim's political head...
...From the military point of view, the opinion—expressed for a long time by men in uniform—that "the longer we wait the harder and bloodier it will be" would appear to be borne out by the formidable present nature of the Communist defenses in Cuba...
...The candidate status refers to the probationary nature of the membership...
...Some observers related the publicity given to would-be defectors to the current Party campaign against modernistic —that is...
...Thereupon, the newspaper declared, the young man became obsessed with the idea of becoming a stamp dealer...
...Men close to Kim say he will not take reprisals...
...As the Soviet press makes plain daily, the economy is beset by large numbers of persons who seek to enrich themselves at the expense of the State...
...One resolution hailed the "glorious victory" of Cuba over the U.S...
...He said he had explained in Moscow that Yugoslavia "enjoys a great reputation among the peoples of Asia and Africa" that was "useful not only to us and to those countries but also to the progressive movement and to the whole peace-loving world...
...At the same time, the conference called for an economic boycott of Portugal for what was termed its "fascist brutality" in Angola and Mozambique...
...Paul Underwood MOSCOW STALINGRAD February 2—The Soviet press marked the 20th anniversary of the defeat of German forces at Stalingrad by giving Premier Khrushchev credit for key decisions in the operations...
...General Chung Hee Park headed the Junta, but behind him stood Kim as the head of the nation's central intelligence organization...
...Marshal Sergei S. Biryuzov...
...This is a view that has been put forward by some West European Communists, notably those of the Italian party, but it has never won official acceptance in Moscow...
...Pravda, the Communist party organ, said the U.S...
...Western-oriented—tendencies in art and literature...
...Biryuzov, who took part in operation against von Mannstein, is now commander-in-chief of Soviet rocket forces.—Theodore Shabad REACTION TO WESTERN RIFT January 29 — The Soviet Union, plagued by its quarrel with Communist China, has welcomed with unconcealed satisfaction the spectacle of the disarray among the Atlantic alliance...
...Newspaper accounts provide part of the answer...
...It claimed that Soviet industrial production last year was 63 per cent that of the U.S...
...He had been appointed to the post on February 7 following a Government reshuffle in which East Germany's Ministry for Agriculture was dissolved and replaced by the Agricultural State Council...
...But the attention given these crimes suggests that their volume must be significant, perhaps as much as 3 to 5 per cent of the national income...
...In addition to enhancing Khrushchev's role in battle decisions, Soviet press comment also stressed the theme that the fate that befell German forces at Stalingrad "awaits any other aggressor...
...Moreover, the Committees have extensive powers to examine books, question witnesses and administer punishments, including demotion or dismissal...
...Thus, the total picture that emerges is one of continuing crisis, with the Cuban situation by no means settled...
...Premier Khrushchev is no doubt aware of these negative aspects and costs...
...This follows because the 9.5 per cent gain of the Soviet Union must be applied to a total that, by Moscow's calculation, is only about 60 per cent of the U.S...
...As Izvestia put it, who are these people who are trying to go "over there...
...Wide prominence was given to the differences between President Kennedy and President de Gaulle...
...At the instigation of Arab delegates, the conference demanded that the black African countries break off diplomatic relations with Israel...
...had failed in efforts to organize Western Europe in such a manner as to change the correlation of world forces to the disadvantage of the Communist bloc...
...recognition came so quickly after the composition of the new regime was announced in Baghdad...
...total, has been increasing on an average of only three percentage points annually in the last half decade...
...According to the newspaper, a dossier of 346 pages has been compiled on his life, and he is to be tried for treason shortly...
...Izvestia said he took 35 rubles ($38.50) from the mutual aid fund of which he was a member, wire cutters for the barbed-wire fence along the frontier, a compass, a first-aid kit and valuable stamps...
...The military picture that emerged from the welter of assertions and counter-assertions was about as follows: Soviet military strength in Cuba now numbers about 17,000 men, as compared to 500 on July 1, 1962...
...According to the official definition of its duties, the Committee's many members "must build their work in such a manner that bureaucrats, procrastinators, parasites, thieves, black marketeers, swindlers and those who offer bribes should feel the inevitability of punishment, that they should tremble before the great force of Soviet society...
...His critic...
...continued to investigate the Cuban problem in executive session, and both Democrats and Republicans continued to express some concern about the strength of the Soviet forces in Cuba...
...The other is that the sharp distinction the Administration has tried to make between so-called "offensive" and "defensive" arms has little military meaning...
...The present chance for countries like Spain may soon pass but while it lasts "new entries into the international race are accepted," the newspaper concluded...
...he declared...
...Lest there be any doubt of his loyalty to Communism, Ehrenburg recalled the shock of Khrushchev's de-Stalinization speech in 1956 among many Communists, especially abroad, who wondered whether a fatal blow had not been struck at the very idea of Communism...
...Just what I have now written: ? don't know.' If I were a religious person, I would probably say that God moves in mysterious ways...
...trying to separate itself from the attacks on Israel and the U.N...
...police measures] but with political work...
...Soviet published estimates show that in 1960 Russian industrial output was about 60 per cent that of the U.S., thus implying, by Soviet calculation, a gain of only three percentage points for 1961 and 1962 together...
...industrial growth than has occurred...
...If recent trends continue...
...For a while it looked as though Kim was finished, defeated by his opponents' warnings that there could be no peace in South Korea so long as he stayed...
...Tito said it was essential to the common aim of both Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union —'"the achievement of Socialism and, in the long run...
...demanded that the United States return Okinawa to lapan and called for immediate dismantling of the U.S...
...Soviet output will not equal the Premier's prediction that by 1970 the Soviet Union would be outproducing the United States...
...Half an hour later the curfew siren sounds, and until the all-clear signal four hours later nothing in the city moves except an occasional patrol...
...These are decadent phenomena introduced from without...
...Resolutions were adopted in the conference's crowded final moments that resulted in Tanganyika, the host country...
...He has stayed put, sometimes wooed, sometimes warned, and always under surveillance...
...In his letter...
...These are our goals, and they must be the main trend of our foreign policy, particularly in our relations with them [the Soviets...
...If one or two try to object, they are denounced as slanderers, persecuted at work and, if need be, dismissed...
...In times of crisis or great tension, it is during these hours that Seoul waits to see whether the men contesting for power will move by force against their enemies...
...The new mood in the Santa Cruz palace was graphically described by ABC, one of Spain's leading newspapers, when it said recently that present international developments "offer an opportunity to our country...
...On February 8 the West Berlin Association of Free lurists disclosed the fact that Bartsch, who is 39, was a former Nazi...
...He pointed out that only "continuing, penetrating on site inspection" could check, with "absolute assurance," the alleged stowage of offensive missiles and arms in caves and underground...
...The economic visor and unifying spirit demonstrated earlier by the Common Market had challenged the traditional MarxistLeninist theory that the Western countries, competing viciously with each other, would create a general economic depression that would permit the Communist parties to take power...
...One arises from an old Soviet practice of using denunciation and accusation as a means of personal revenge and an instrument of bureaucratic struggle for power and promotion...
...There has apparently been only a limited increase in the supply of arms sent to Cuba recently...
...about distortions of both the philosophy of Communism and its principle of justice, solidarity and humanism...
...The writer added, however, he had to reply because Yermilov, "through insinuations, contrived to insult me as a man and a Soviet citizen...
...Support for resorting to violence as a means of ending South Africa's white-supremacy policies was among the 27 resolutions approved at the end of the weeklong conference held in the town of Moshi...
...These revelations came in a recent Soviet report on economic performance in 1962...
...The chief strong points of the system appear to be these: It will enlist a large number of Soviet citizens in a massive grass-roots effort to expose crime...
...Reduction of the powers and size of the secret police and its network of informers led to reduced supervision, and therefore to less fear of being caught...
...M. Rosenthal...
...His remarks about the group leader were characterized by Izvestia as "insulting...
...It decided instead merely to express its appreciation of the efforts of the six nations at the recent Colombo conference to "create conditions" for the peaceful settlement of the differences...
...The Committees have been urged to work with a maximum of publicity to bring home the threat of exposure to all who may be breaking the law or thinking of doing so...
...During the dark curfew hours, the police can move quickly and men can be arrested efficiently...
...Biryuzov said it had demonstrated "in all their brilliance the iron logic of thought and the strategic farsightedness of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev...
...ABC explained: "The [present...
...The Junta sessions turned into bitter wrangles...
Vol. 46 • February 1963 • No. 4
