Evening star., 1962-11-20
Casting Her Eyes


The war of words between Moscow
and Peiping seems to be getting sig
nificantly hotter and grimmer from day
to day. To be sure, each side up to now
has studiously avoided mentioning the
other directly by name. But everybody
knows that when the Chinese Commu-
niSts attack Marshal Tito's Yugoslav
regime, their real target is the Kremlin,
and when Soviet commentators castigate
Albania, they actually are assailing Red
China.
This curious resort to proxy punch
ing bags is strikingly Illustrated by the
latest MoScow-Peiping exchange. Thus
the chief newspaper of the Chinese Com
munist Party has editorialized as fol-
lows: "JoSip Tito and his like have
tried by hook or by crook to bring pres
sure to bear on the Cuban people,"
Further, again without specifically nam
ing Premier KhruShchev or the Kremlin,
the paper has ridiculed as "pure non
sense" the claim that withdrawal of
Soviet missiles from Cuba has saved
world peace. AS matter of fact, Red
China has indicated that it condemns
the withdrawal as a "Munich"-a cow
ardly act Of appeasement by people who
are scared stiff"
Small wonder that the Kremlin has
struck back In long article written
for Pravda, by high-ranking party
member, the Albanian Reds (meaning
the Chinese Communists) have been
bitterly upbraided for engaging in sun
controlled slander against the Soviet
Union" and for unleashing ian espe-
cially shameful and really provocative
campaign In connection with the Carib-
bean crisis. Once they talked lypocrit-
ically about peaceful coexistence. :,
NOW they openly pursue course aimed
at disrupting peace and pushing human
1ty into a thermonuclear war. They have
come out against the peaceful settle
ment of international problems and
against the struggle for disarmament.
Some Of these wordS-wholly apart
from defending the Kremlin's Cuban
policy-plainly imply condemnation of
Red China'S grave aggression against
India. More than that, the article as a
whole, although 1t names only Albania
(Which is Peiping's Adriatic stooge),
constitutes perhaps the harshest criti-
ciSm yet fired from Moscow against Mao
Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist
regime. Unlike sticks and stones, of
course, name-calling is not supposed to
hurt anybody. But in this instance, since
it reflects what appears to be an ever
widening rift between Generalissimo
Mao and Mr.. KhruShchev, perhaps 1t
may be pertinent to quote once again
what French President Charles de Gaulle
has said:
No doubt Soviet Russia in spite of having
aided communism to take root in China. rec
ognizes that nothing can change the fact that
she is Russia, white nation of Europe which
has conquered part of Asia, and is, in sum.
richly endowed with land, mines, factories
and wealth, face to face with the yellow
masses OF China, numberless and impover-
lshed, indestructiole and ambitious, building
through trial and hardship a power which
cannot be measured and casting her ewes
about her on the open spaces over which
she must one day spread
India is even now reckoning with
the dark possibilities implicit in these
words. Partyline theology to one side.
the Russians, in terms Of people and
territory, have reason to do the same
sort OF reckoning. For Red China, with
a population that may well reach a
billion IN the next 20 years or so. un-
doubtedly is casting her eyes about her."