Critical Of China

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30196, 30 July 1963, Page 13

Critical Of China

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) MOSCOW, July 29. “Pravda” today expressed surprise at “certain responsible people” in China being in agreement with “French supporters of continuing nuclear tests and of the thermo-nuclear arms race,” according to Moscow Radio. In an article by it* observer, Yuri Zhukov, th* Soviet Communist Parly newspaper said French and West German leaders were “risking complete isolation and general condemnation for the sake of continuing a previously agreed policy of possessing nuclear weapons.” “Pravda" quoted a Chinese delegate at the Japanese Trade Union Congress in Tokyo last week as saying that the exchange of view’s in Moscow between the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States was a "plot” of American imperialism. “The Chinese comrades will find themselves in unenviable company if they trail behind (President* de Gaulle in defiance of the clearlyexpressed wiU of the people of the whole world,” Zhukov wrote.

In a leading article quoted by Tass. “Pnavada” said the Soviet Union would “make every effort to exploit any favourable possibilities of fostering the settlement of fundamental international problems.”