Kozlov Attacks Chinese Policies

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29998, 6 December 1962, Page 13

Kozlov Attacks Chinese Policies

(Special Correspondent N.ZJ’.A.)

ROME, December 4. Russia’s First DeputyPremier (Mr Frol Kozlov) took the floor of the Italian Communist Congress yesterday to unleash a new Soviet “broadside” in Moscow's ideological struggle with Communist China.

Mr Kozlov, who ranks just below Mr Khrushchev in the Russian leadership, criticised Peking for its attitude in the Cuban crisis, its role in the border dispute with India, and its differences with Moscow.

A Chinese delegation at the congress heard Mr Kozlov's hour-long speech with no sign of emotion, the Associated Press reported. But when the delegates rose to give him a standing ovation the men from Peking remained seated. Mr Kozlov did not attack

China by name, but it was clear whom he meant.

"We are for peace,” Mr Kozlov said. “The Soviet Union Communist Party thinks it is passible to avoid unleashing war in this epoch.” Mr Kozlov said Communists who opposed Russia's position in the Cuban crisis had adopted a “poisonous and dangerous” position. The Chinese-India war, he said, damaged the interests of both nations. In an obvious reply to frequent Chinese charges of Soviet weakness in the EastWest conflict, Mr Kozlov said: "We are for peace but he makes a great error who considers our love for peace a symptom of weakness.”