Khrushchev On Visit To Austria

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29245, 1 July 1960, Page 11

Khrushchev On Visit To Austria

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) VIENNA, June 30. Mr' Khrushchev, the self-styled architect of Austrian neutrality, arrived in Vienna by air today on his first trip to the West since the abortive summit conference in Paris in May. He arrived confident in the knowledge that he has had three personal triumphs since the sumfnit, said the British United Press.

His foreign policy, including his dramatic exit from the summit conference, had been fully endorsed by the presidium of the central committee, the ruling body of the Soviet Communist Party. All eight Communist countries at. the Bucharest Communist summit conference had resolved to support Mr Khrushchev’s revised interpretation of Lenin’s thesis that armed clashes between the capitalist and Communist systems are inevitable until communism wins.

Mr Khrushchev had even got apparently grudging support from the Chinese Communists for his doctrine of peaceful co-existence and the non-evitability of war. As a prelude to the tour, Mr Khrushchev had announced a new series of missile launchings into the Pacific. .If there had been any doubts, after the U-2 incident and the collapse of East-West negotiations, of Mr Khrushchev's unassailable position in the Soviet hierarchy they had been dispelled by these developments, the news agency said. The Bucharest conference had also demonstrated that he remained the generally recognised senior ideologist of the Communist world. —-.The controversy between the Chinese and the Russians on points of Marxist dogma would continue on paper, but for practical reasons the Chinese apparently had been unable to shake Mr Khrushchev’s belief in personal diplomacy.

Mr Khrushchev’s Austrian tour would also serve to emphasise his crushing victory over the oldguard Stalinist old Bolsheviks, the Molotov-Malenkov so-called anti-party group who opposed the Soviet-Austrian peace treaty. By all accounts., the Kremlin was pleased with Austrian neutrality. The Soviet press had consistently held up Austria as a

good example of peaceful coexistence between countries of differing social systems, said B.U.P. /