Russian leadership
Sir, —Tuesday’s sub-leader “Russian leadership," conveys an impression of the Soviet Communist Party’s twentyfifth Congress impossible to counter in 150 words, but its most fundamental error is an implicit belief (paragraph 3) that the Communist Party is the Soviet Union’s principal lawmaking body. Not so; that is the prerogative of the Supreme Soviet. The point of comparing the durations of the United States Presidential election campaign and the Soviet Communist Party’s twenty-fifth Congress will escape all but the keenest minds, and it is a cumbersome circumlocution to write “built-in reliance on imports from the West,” when Soviet -West trade is meant. It was, in fact, the United States Government which injsisted, over Soviet reluctance, •on a long-term agreement on ithe Soviet Union’s buying of ! United States grain, thus ensuring that the ailing United States economv benefited from the Soviet economy’s firmly founded stability.— Yours, etc.,
M. CREEL, President Christchurch branch, N. Society February 24, 1976.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19760226.2.133.15
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34087, 26 February 1976, Page 16
Word Count
157Russian leadership Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34087, 26 February 1976, Page 16
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.