Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-18
Russians Learn
Of Stain Attack;
Public Excited
By STANLEY JOHNSON

MOSCOW, Mar. 17.-Th'
Tifiis newspaper Dawn Of thu
East" has demanded that pro
vocateurs and enemy elements
in Stains native Georgia b.
crushed.
(The editorial in this official
organ of the Georgian Com
munist Party came on the
heels of reports in Washing
ton and London that demon
STATIONS and riots against the
Kremlin's denunciation of
Stain had taken place in
Tif1is.)
Dawn of the East" declared
in its issue Of March Is: sOul
party organizations of the stat.
and unions are called on tt
guard Soviet law vigilantly ane
denounce and expose all pro.
vocateurs and enemy element.
and all those who threaten tn.
legal rights of Soviet citizens.
News Gets Around
Meanwhile, knowledge of the
secret speech of Nikita Khru.
shchev at the Goth Party Con.
Igress explaining the reasons fol
collective leadership and point.
ing out the harm done by one.
man rule such as that Of Stair
was being disseminated to ar
ever-wider audience of Soviet
citizens.
tReports in foreign capitals
said Mr.. Khrushchev called
Stain a murderer and charged
him with laundering. Tonight
in Belgrade usually well-in-
formed sources said the Soviet
government will soon make
public a full report on the
Khrushchev anti-Stalin re-
port.)
The versions of the Khru-
shchev speech on Stain were
getting to the public through a
letter circulated to party or
CARNATIONS all over the Soviet
Union.
The letter has been read al
meetings of Communist Party
activities, which have been going
on for the past week. The party
personnel are then passing the
word on. It's the main subject
iof conversatio in Moscow.
Censorship Eased
Soviet censorship of CORE.
spondents' dispatches from Mos
COW suppressed for the past five
days-until today-all reference:
to the secret Khrushchev speech
Finally this afternoon the
Russian censors permitted terse
messages mentioning this i'm.
portant declaration to be trans.
mitted to the outside world. The
initial reports in the Western
press on the speech came from
diplomatic sources.
It is now possible on the basis
of information from various
quarters including Moscow tt
reconstruct the general sequence
of events in Tiflis.
March 5 was the third ami
versary of Stains death. 1t was
ignored not only by the Moscow
press but also by Tif1is news
papers.
BY that date all Tiflis was
buzzing with the news Of Mr.
Khrushchev's denunciation Of
Stain.
Apparently this denunciatior
aroused great feeling, coming
after the denunciation Of an
other important Georgian. Sta
Inns collaboration. Lavrenty Beria
less. than three years ago.
students March
On March Z Georgia Univer-
sity students and school chill
dren paraded through the Tiflis
streets carrying banners pro-
claiming Long Live Stain
Other Georgians swarmed into
the streets.
1t is reported posters with por-
traits of Mr.. Khrushchev. Mar
shall Bulganin and other leaders
were torn down and that DEM
onstrators even occupied i'm
portant buildings.
Troops. it is said, were called
out to quell the disturbances
Other reports say there were
also disorders March 8.
On March 9 the paper Dawn
of the East" came out with a
full page spread honoring the
third anniversary of Stains
burial.
This display in the Tiflis news
paper apparently was a measure
taken to placate the angry Geor-
gians.
The Soviet government is now
taking drastic measures against
what probably was an isolated
phenomenon.