COMMUNISTS IN AUSTRALIA
Party “Perplexed” (Rec. 11 p.m.) MELBOURNE, June 22. The Australian Communist Party has joined overseas Communist parties in demanding to be told more about the downfall of Stalin. Mr L. L. Sharkey, general secretary of the Australian party, has come out on the side of Mr Palmiro Togliatti, the Italian Communist leader.
He says the Australian party was. “to say the least, perplexed” when Stalin was denounced by Mr Khrushchev.
In an article in the Melbourne Communist newspaper this week, Mr Sharkey says: “It is fitting that Mr Togliatti, as leader of the largest Communist Party in the capitalist world, should raise the questions that, to say the least, perplexed us, following revelations of the role of Stalin at the twentieth congress ol the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
“According to reports, it appears he has asked the party for a Marxist estimation of how, in the socialist society of the Soviet Union, such a situation could have arisen.”
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