China Marks 15th Anniversary

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30561, 2 October 1964, Page 13

China Marks 15th Anniversary

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

' TOKYO. October 1.

Half a million Chinese paraded on Thursday through Pekin’s Square of Celestial Peace to celebrate the formation 15 years ago of the People’s Republic of China, the Associated Press reported.

The bitterness of China’s quarrel with the rest of the international Communist camp was forgotten for the moment as the Chinese party chairman, Mr Mao Tse-tung, and 3000 foreign guests, including some top men from the Soviet bloc, reviewed the

spectacle from the high red walls of the forbidden city. The Chinese refrained from mentioning the Soviet Union

or its Premier, Mr Khrushchev with whom they are em> broiled in a bitter and divisive dispute. At the same time, however, the official Peking “People’s Daily,” in a long editorial served notice that, in spite of the festive atmosphere.

China would “carry the struggle against modern revisionism and modern dogmatism to the fend.” This, and a passing reference to the "vicious, perfidious” pressures applied to China by the Soviet revisionists, indicated that the Sino-Soviet quarrel, though briefly muted, still exists. There was no reference in thousands of words of editorials or in a key speech by President Liu Shao-chi, of China’s nuclear capabilities. The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr Dean Rusk, said on Tuesday the Chinese might detonate a nuclear device in the near future.