Djilas Says Cold War Must End

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31881, 8 January 1969, Page 11

Djilas Says Cold War Must End

(N.Z.P. A,-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, January 7. The Jugoslav author, Milovan Djilas, says the cold war struggle between communism and capitalism can no longer be maintained as a serious philosophical or doctrinal dispute.

In an article in the “Saturday Evening Post,” Mr Djilas writes: “It is my belief that the United States and the Soviet Union, two strong powers who both distrust China, will be forced to seek an accommodation with each other. Neither is going to disappear from the face of the earth as a result of aggression from a third force. Neither is going to suffer a drastic overrun of government from the inside." Mr Djilas writes that the United States-Soviet accommodation will come about as a result of the Soviet creative intelligentsia becoming more critical of the regime. “The Soviet oligarchs—the representatives of the ‘new class’—are taking advantage of ideological differences and internal crises to exercise and extend their power . . . They are, in fact, acting from

weakness, not from strength. “The political and social structure of the Soviet Union, which still follows the forms laid down by Lenin and Stalin, is in radical conflict with modern views and contemporary events. “This conflict is costing the Russian people dearly . . .

the Soviet leaders are not imaginative men. They leave themselves but two drastic options: either they must shatter the party bureaucracy within their society and allow new political reforms to arise, or they must allow political reaction and imperialist tendencies to persist.”

Biterg Bitten.—Delegates attending a conference on noise in Liverpool today were told to keep quiet because the hall had bad accoustics and the speakers could not be heard—Liverpool, Jan. 7.