DEBATE IN KREMLIN

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 13

DEBATE IN KREMLIN

Detente Or Cold War

(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, July 28. There js a growing conviction that a great debate is now going on in the Kremlin on the future course of Russian foreign policy and that it will continue until after the United States Presidential election, says the “Yorkshire Post.”

Russian policy is harsher, exploiting every happening from the Congo to Cuba, but there is an air of improvisation about it. The outcome of the debate in the Kremlin is important to the rest of the Communist bloc as well as to the free world. The appointment of ColonelGeneral Revesz as Hungarian Ambassador in Moscow is of special interest He is a Russian citizen. His dispatch to Moscow by Mr Kardar, the Hungarian Prime Minister, is taken as a sign that uncommon events are afoot there and that Mr Kardar, who is among Mr Khrushchev's close disciples, is determined to be kept informed of all the shifts and turns of thought among the Kremlin's top leaders.

The debate in the Kremlin, it is now generally agreed, is on whether Russia should seek a detente with the West or return to the full rigours of the cold war and the full risks of such a policy, the paper says. It has been presented as a clash between the Stalinists and the realists. This is probably an over-simplification of what is taking place.