Vietnam

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30178, 9 July 1963, Page 3

Vietnam

Sir, —P.J.A.’s eulogising of communism's racial tolerance is prevarication. Basically, the current Sino-Soviet doctrinal dispute stems from mutual racial antipathy which could not be dissipated by magniloquent slogans of “infallible comradely unity,” etc. The Soviet State has an infamous record of subjection of all minority races to the numerically superior Russian monopolists. Can “P.J.A.” justify the deportation of 11 Asiatic ethnic groups, totalling over one million persons, and the subjugation by mass liquidation of the Baltic, Caucasian, and Central Asian people, as befitting a racially egalitarian State? Nor does the expulsion last year from Guinea of overbearing Russian "advisers” induce credence of “P.JA.’s” assertions. The racial problems confronting democratic society are “solved” under communism in a welter of bloodshed, or by such discrimination as that still suffered by Soviet Jews. While such tyranny exists, Marxist interpretation cannot be “weightier” disputation —Yours, etc., July 8, 1963. B.M.C.