SOVIET-CHINESE DIFFERENCES

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29368, 22 November 1960, Page 17

SOVIET-CHINESE DIFFERENCES

No Resolution Yet At Moscow Talks (NJZ. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) MOSCOW, November 21. No end is yet in sight of the Communist summit conference in Moscow, which is beginning to be an embarrassment to the Russians because of official visits to the city by the President of Finland, Mr Urho Kekkonen, and Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

The Chinese delegation of about 90, led by the Head of State, Mr Liu Shao-chi, has made no concessions to the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries on ideological questions, unofficial sources said.

The conference began 11 days ago at the end of celebrations of the forty-third anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution and in spite of the departure of the Czechoslovak President, Mr Antonin Novotny, to attend to official business in Prague, there are no signs that any agreement has been reached.

More than 80 Communist Parties are represented at the summit, making it one of the largest gatherings of Communist leaders for years.

The Chinese are thought to be arguing that all means must be used, however drastic, in the struggle between communism and its enemies.

But Mr Khrushchev is believed to have a majority of delegates lined up behind his view that peaceful coexistence is necessary in the nuclear age and that communism will triumph in t*e world without war.

According to unofficial sources, another source of contention between Russia and China is the

method of moving towards complete communism. Mr Liu is said to have exposed the sharp differences between the two sides on the advance to absolute communism with a strong advocacy of communes. The official Soviet viewpoint is that communes are doomed while there is a shortage of consumer and other goods. Mr Khrushchev today again praised the principle of peaceful coexistence between States with different social systems, believed to be a major topic in the Communist summit. Welcoming Mr Kekkonen on his arrival by train for a four-day official visit, Mr Khrushchev said Rus<=na had sincere friendship for Finland. “Soviet-Finnish relations are a good example of the imulementation of the principles of peaceful coexistence of States with different kor*ial systems.” he said. Mr Kekkonen emphasised that the difference in social systems was no obstacle to the strengthening of friendly relations among States.