Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-04
KEY TO THE KREMLiN
People May Change,
Khrushchev Won't
Ry WILLIAM !. RYAN

BY WILLIAM Il. KHAN
Associated Press FOREIGN News Analyst
A Communist Party hack
named 2. T. Serdyuk from
Moldavia droned on and on.
saying Just what was expected
OF him.
Nikita Khrushchev, tireless
talker and logged listener. hung
on every word.
I'm view Of the ultimate tri-
umph OF our party's general
line" intoned Mr.. Serdyuk, 1--WE
have all the more evidence Of
the political bankruptcy Of the
anti-party group Of Malenkov.
Kaganovich. Molotov. BulRanin
and Shepilov."
Frowning. Premier Khru-
shchev interrupted. "Shepilov
who joined them" he corrected.
It happened last December at
a party session when Mr.. KhTu-
shchev was establishing himself
finally as boss. The Moldavian
ri1omentarily had strayed from
the formula.
Not Quite So Guilty
When Khrushchev "took the
black sheep by the TAIL" as he
put it, and threw them out in
mid-i957, a new cliche was
born. The big boys VINO OPP
posed Khrushchev were to be
regarded as guilty as sin. For
mer Foreign Minister Shepilov
was not quite so guilty.
This was the Khrushchev
mind at work, as dogmatic as
Stains. conditioned by a life
time Of expressing himself in
pre-fabricated phrases Such
incidents throw light on the
personality of the man who
would face Western statesmen
in any summit conference.
Khrushchev'S life story shows
him clearly to be the prisoner
of a rigid. uncompromiSine
doctrine. Khrushchev learned
from Lenin, for example, there
are two kinds of Wharf.-The just
and the unjust. The just war
defends or advances commu-
nism.
There are two ways to ex-
pand influence in the world
Whatever the West does, even
through economic aid programs
is colonialism. Whatever the
USSR does is in support OF
liberation.
When Russian troops crushed
a revolution in Hungary, and
when Red Chinese troops smash
resistance in Tibet, that is
coming to the defense of the
people"
No Logic in Standards
To Khrushchev as to all de-
vout disciples of Lenin and
Stain. the terms Communist
Party" and 'the people" are
synonymous.
When Khrushchev applies the
double standard. one for the
USSR and one for the West, il
is useless to look for logic as
WeSterners know it. There is
only one logic for Khrushchev;
the inevitable triumph of COM
munism. Does the Kremlin act
in good faith? There is only
one faith: communism. There
is only one morality. 1t excuses
anything that advances the
cause of Soviet communism.
Like Lenin and Stain before
him, Khrushchev has made
himself sole arbiter of what il
good for the cause of commu-
nism at home and abroad
Those who disagreed with him
became antiparty wreckers
guilty of half a dozen 'isns'
from the communist lexicon Of
sin.
By these standards, Stair
was right when he resisted
Trotsky's impatient demand t.
regiment farmers. And he wa.
right when he himself brutally
accomplished the same thing
KhruShchev was right when hi
denounced Stain and en-.
couraged relaxations. He wa,
just as right when he re-estab'
lished Stain as a hero anC
cracked down on the same re.
laxations, blaming others TO
costly experiments.
Wants World Power
For Khrushchev, the relaxa
lions brought about a situation
in Hungary which he fount
hot as paprika." The.
brought reStiveness anon
Soviet youth, riots in Poland
even trouble in China. The.
required him to fix the blam
elsewhere. and thus the re
newal of the Kremlin feud witt
Tito Of Yugoslavia.
Now Khrushchev once agail
is a Stalinist. Still feeling h
needs to make promises to tn
public, he warns that abun
dance must not be expecte