Split At Sofia
I (N Z Press Assn.—Copyright) SOFIA (Bulgaria), November 18. The world Communist movement split yesterday over the Soviet-backed proposal to hold an international summit to outlaw China, United Press International reported. Speeches by delegates to the Bulgarian Communist Party Congress appeared to doom the proposal, at least for the present. As the fourth day of the
Bulgarian congress drew to its close, 14 parties had gone on record in favour of a meeting to resolve the Chinese-Soviet split. Rumania openly opposed the proposal, Italians said “maybe” and speakers from 12 other nations had displayed coolness by ignoring the question entirely. Even among the Commu-nist-ruled nations, reaction was split Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany were in favour, and Poland, Cuba, Jugoslavia, Mongolia and North Vietnam abstained.
Non-ruling parties also were divided. France, Iraq, Ceylon, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Finland, Cyprus and Belgium were in favour, and Britain, Chile, Lebanon, Ireland, Portugal. South Africa and the Viet Cong abstained.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31221, 19 November 1966, Page 15
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