Moscow pours scorn

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32847, 22 February 1972, Page 1

Moscow pours scorn

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

MOSCOW, February 21. Radio Moscow today poured scorn on President Nixon’s visit to China, saying it was part of a WashingtonPeking deal to split the world Communist movement.

In a domestic broadcast, made about the time of Mr Nixon’s arrival in Shanghai, the radio said that the rapid preparation for the visit coincided with steppedup American bombing of North Vietnam and the escalation of the war in Indo.China.

“These crimes are being committed with the factual connivance of Peking,” the radio said.

The radio made no mention of Mr Nixon’s arrival in China and there was no immediate report of his visit from other Soviet media.

Commenting on a report that medals marking Mr Nixon’s visit were going on sale in the United States, the radio quoted its own observer as saying: "... This, so to speak, is a symbolic representation of the propaganda thesis that Nixon’s trip to Peking supposedly serves exclusively peaceful aims.

“Bourgeois papers” “The bourgeois papers are vying with each other to lavish praise on the peaceful nature of the visit.” The radio added: “It is noteworthy that the first violin in this propaganda orchestra is played by the most out-and-out reactionary circles in the West. “Minting of medals devoted to Nixon’s meeting with Mao Tse-tung has already begun in Bavaria, the citadel of West German revanchists.” Stormy delight It was no coincidence that the American President’s visit to Peking was evoking stormy delight in the reactionaries’ camp, the radio said.

“China and the United States jointly supported the repressions and genocide by the Pakistani brasshats in East Bengal. And now in Hindustan they are conducting a policy which is directed against India and the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.”