Chou Attacks Soviet Leaders

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31090, 20 June 1966, Page 13

Chou Attacks Soviet Leaders

(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) BUCHAREST, June 19. The Chinese Prime Minister, Mr Chou En-lai, violently attacked the Soviet leaders in a speech in Bucharest, accusing them of gross violation of international Communist principles—but Rumania has not allowed it to be published at home.

At a luncheon given for him on Friday, Mr Chou, without naming the Soviet Union directly, said the “modern revisionists have grossly violated the principles of the 1957 and 1960 Moscow declarations (on Communist unity) in practising Great Power Chauvinism.”

The text of the speech was not released until yesterday.

Mr Chou said Russia had carried out a “splitting attitude towards the fraternal parties and capitulated before American imperialism.” The passage appeared in a text of Mr Chou’s speech released by the official New China News Agency, but the version which appeared in the Rumanian Communist Party’s press omitted it. The speech of Mr Chou and one by the Rumanian Communist leader, Mr Nicolae Ceausescu, were published as the two leaders met again

yesterday morning for their second round of talks. Observers said that the non-publication of the polemical passage in Mr Chou’s speech appeared to be deliberate and in line with Rumania’s delicate neutral policy in the Sino-Soviet dispute, in which it tried not to offend either side.

Mr Chou also hit out fiercely at the United States in his luncheon toast on Friday, predicting that “American imperialism” was going to its inevitable doom. “American imperialism and its accomplices are finding things more and more difficult. The great victories obtained by the Vietnamese

people In their struggle of resistance against the American aggressors . . . have blasted American imperialism—this paper tiger—considerably encouraging the revolutionary struggle of peoples throughout the world,” he said. Referring to recent party purges in Peking, Mr Chou said the class struggle had not ended. "The main edge of this cultural revolution is turned against a handful of antiparty, anti-Socialist and coun-ter-revolutionary bourgeois intellectuals. “For the broad mass of intellectuals originating from the old society we are applying a policy of union, education and re-educating," the Chinese leader said. A great Socialist cultural revolution was unfolding in China, Mr Chou said. It represented the key problem whether or not the proletarian dictatorship and the Socialist economic basis of China would consolidate and further develop.