Possible Trouble In Kremlin Over Move

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31767, 26 August 1968, Page 14

Possible Trouble In Kremlin Over Move

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PRAGUE, Auguet 24.

Many high sduree* in CxßChoslovakia b*!i*v*d tonight that a series of grots political miscalculations in the Rueeian oocupa. tion of this country could lead to senous trouble in the Kremlin.

Apparently acttaf upon a stream of Inadequate and mislead, inf intelligence, the Soriot Union believed that if its troops marched in they would be greeted as liberators.

Instead, tfiep fiev* f*U*4 giSRa w w r *’‘ r “ tituatiw. instead <rf MM welcomed with garland* « flower*, U* occupier* have been greeted with boo*. erid contempt tod on unending stream ot trwiaMA. Some student* Myo been ignoring the gun* sad talking to th* RuMlan* about why they e*me in, what they have

found and bow they cm justw?l» *Ru2Jan’toldters have shifted uneasily in their argument*, and often have, been fight agents of imperialism and counter-revolution, these young troop* have found themselves a situation with which they cannot begin to W ?*J» Mt given rise to report* from free radio stations that tom* Ruttian unit* have boon withdrawn from the town* back Into the weeded arses for a rest from the insidious barrage of words from the oeeupiers in the dtp. The Soviet troops have found a nation united. Every time the names of a few col-

lafiorater* have been menhave Men bitted The workero ef Ctsrtoelo. Ma reform*, ifefes up a Quisling regime, but their lafiuenee I* hegllglbte. mtadi d*Communl*t leader* la: Who wa* retpoMlbte for the mow rnjwalcutetlon* which led the Russian* to mount their terrifying war M neroro against thia country In July, apparently «imed clearly at military InterronU They then allowed a tw» week ported of apparent *m Ond thoughts to permit Mr Dubcok and bit reformer* to seek their own salvation by dumping many of their reforms overboard. The inner agonies of the Kremlin decision have so far been concealed behind a smoke screen of apparent unanimity. But Czechoslovak party men believe that this catastrophic blunder will precipitate the dissolution ef the present leadership group In the Kremlin.

It will either demolish the group which believes in force and the overriding will and power of the Soviet party in the world movement, or else it will put beta the clock and give these men the leadership in the erueial days ahead, they say.