ANTI-STALIN CAMPAIGN

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 28008, 30 June 1956, Page 13

ANTI-STALIN CAMPAIGN

“Discontent Of Communists (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON. June 27. The United States Secretary of State, Mr Dulles, said today that the recent anti-Stalin campaign by the Communist Party chief, Mr Khrushchev, had started a wave of discontent in the Communist world. He urged the free world to ta £ e advantage of this dissatisfaction by maintaining its unity and its vigour. If the West lost its unity, he said, international communism would gam hope of new victories which would help it to surmount its present trouble. . Mr Dulles said that international communism was in a state of perplexity, and at internal odds, because certain basic truths had caught up with it. He listed those “basic truths as: Communism had great difficulty being effective in a cold war without the “brutal terrorism” of the Stalin era. Iron-fisted rule would not be tolerated for ever unless it produced a string of victories.

From 1950. he said, there had been a lean period so far as Communist conquest was concerned. There would continue to be an affinity between the Soviet Union and its satellites but Mr Khrushchev s speech had greatly weakened. Kremlin control over other Communist countries and discounted the theory that critical statements from outside the Soviet Union were part of a Communist plan to prove that the Kremlin was granting more freedom to party , leaders and individuals.