STALINISM REVIVAL

Press, Volume C, Issue 29672, 16 November 1961, Page 8

STALINISM REVIVAL

Tito Would Not Agree

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) SKOPLJE (Jugoslavia), Nov. 14. President Tito of Jugoslavia told a mass rally yesterday he could never agree that a return of Stalinism, advocated by the Chinese Communists, was a “positive standpoint.” The President was reported yesterday as telling the rally that it. was clear that the Soviet Union and Communist China’ could never agree, but Jugoslav Government officials telephoned foreign news agencies, including Reuters, in Belgrade today and said their reports were incorrect. The officials said President Tito meant he could never agree that a return to Stalinism advocated by the Chinese Communists was a “positive standpoint." The phrase was open to Shis double interpretation because in Serbo-Croat, the verb “mogu” which President Tito used can mean both “I can’’ and “they can.”

The Jugoslav leader, commenting yesterday on the recent 22nd Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, said that although Jugoslavia had been attacked at. the Congress, she took these attacks calmly and did not “dramatise” them.

He said: “We have also seen in the work of the Congress a positive course which has already effectively begun to influence further development not only in the Soviet Union but in other socialist countries."