Chou Says Most Want Revolution

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30233, 11 September 1963, Page 15

Chou Says Most Want Revolution

(N 2. J 3. A .-Reut er—Copyright) PEKING, September 10. More than 90 per cent of the world’s population wants revolution, the Chinese Prime Minister (Chou En-lai) claimed today.

“Only a small handful of persons are stubbornly against revolution," he told a reception given to the North Korean Charge d'Affaires. "The reaction from various countries and the modern revisionists can by no means reverse the progress of history. "The prospect of the revolutionary cause is immeasurably bright,” he said. He did not mention the Soviet Union directly. He said all Socialist countries were confronted by the major tasks of: (1) Upholding MarxismLeninism and opposing modern revisionism. (2) Upholding the unity of the Socialist camp and opposing a split. (3) Upholding proletarian internationalism and opposing great-power chauvinism and national egoism. Mr Chou once more attacked the Nuclear TestBan Treaty as a fraud. The All-China Trade Union Federation, in a message to its North Korean counterpart. has openly criticised

the Soviet Prime Minister <Mr Khr shchev) and other Russian leaders for “going farther along the path of betraying Marxism-Lenin-ism.”

The "People’s Daily" today reprinted an anti-Rus-sian article from the Chinese party’s thebretical fortnightly “Red Flag” which accused Mr Khrushchev of “spinning fabrications” about China wanting another world war. It claimed he Russians had taken an isolated phrase —“on the ruins of destroyed imperialism”—from a Chinese article and built up “un-heard-of concoctions and fantasies.’ ’

The article quoted the passage containing the phrase and asked whether "throughout this passage . , . there is a single sentence about China wanting to launch a world war?” “Where and when have we ever advocated the creation of a civilisation a thousand times higher ‘on the corpses of hundreds of millions of people’ through the launching of a world war, a nuclear war?” it asked.