COMMUNISTS NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV HAD MORE REASONS LAST 
WEEK TO WONDER WHY HE EVER INVITED A RED CHINESE DELEGATION 
TO MOSCOW . TWENTY-FIVE REASONS, TO BE EXACT, ALL NEATLY NUMBERED 
IN A LETTER FOR CONVENIENT " POINT-BY-POINT DISCUSSION " AT THE 
SCHEDULED SINO-SOVIET MEETING NEXT WEEK . MAO TSE-TUNG'S LATEST MESSAGE TO 
NIKITA THE MOST VEHEMENT TO DATE IN THE CONTINUING QUARREL DOOMED 
THE CONFRONTATION TO FAILURE BEFORE IT BEGAN . PEKING DELIBERATELY LEFT 
THE KREMLIN NO ROOM FOR COMPROMISE . AFTER YEARS OF DISCUSSION 
OVER WHETHER THE SPLIT WAS REAL, WESTERN SKEPTICS COULD NO LONGER 
DOUBT THAT IT WAS DEEP, JAGGED, AND UNBRIDGEABLE FOR A LONG 
TIME TO COME . PARROT & STICK . IN 24,000 BRAZENLY 
CONTEMPTUOUS WORDS, MAO ACCUSED KHRUSHCHEV OF SPAWNING A NEW PERSONALITY CULT 
WORSE THAN STALIN'S, ASSAILED THE KREMLIN FOR " GREAT POWER CHAUVINISM 
AND ECONOMIC PRESSURE " AGAINST OTHER RED NATIONS, CHARGED THE SOVIETS 
WITH TRYING TO PURGE FOREIGN COMMUNIST PARTIES . EXCLAIMED RED CHINA 
: " WHAT IS ALL THIS IF NOT SUBVERSION ? " 
AT THE SAME TIME, PEKING WAS NOT ABOVE ATTEMPTING SOME SUBVERSION 
OF ITS OWN . APPEALING TO MOSCOW'S EAST EUROPEAN SATELLITES, THE 
STATEMENT DECLARED : " IF A PARTY CANNOT USE ITS BRAINS 
TO THINK FOR ITSELF, BUT INSTEAD IS A PARTY THAT PARROTS 
THE WORDS OF OTHERS, RUNS HITHER AND THITHER IN RESPONSE TO 
THE BATON OF CERTAIN PERSONS ABROAD, SUCH A PARTY IS INCAPABLE 
OF LEADING THE MASSES . " THE CRUX OF THE CHINESE 
DISPUTE WITH RUSSIA REMAINED MOSCOW'S PROPAGANDA LINE OF PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE WITH 
THE WEST . THIS POLICY, SAID PEKING SCORNFULLY, WAS PLUCKED OUT 
OF " SOME MYSTICAL BOOK FROM HEAVEN " ; MOREOVER, THOSE 
WHO DARE TO DISAGREE ARE TREATED " AS HERETICS DESERVING TO 
BE BURNED AT THE STAKE . HOW CAN THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS 
AGREE ? THEY CANNOT . IT IS IMPOSSIBLE . " AS 
ALWAYS, PEKING STUCK TO THE DOGMA THAT THE ROAD TO VIOLENT 
REVOLUTION IN AFRICA, ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA WAS THE ONLY PATH 
A TRUE MARXIST COULD FOLLOW . AS FOR SOVIET CHARGES OF 
WARMONGERING, THE RED CHINESE REPLIED WITH AN ARGUMENT THAT, IRONICALLY, ECHOED 
SOME PENTAGON STRATEGISTS . BRUSH-FIRE WARS, DECLARED PEKING, NEED NOT NECESSARILY 
ESCALATE INTO AN ALL-OUT NUCLEAR STRUGGLE . TRUTH WAS, DECLARED THE 
MANIFESTO, THE RUSSIANS WERE TOO SELFISH AND SCARED TO RISK THEIR 
BOURGEOIS GAINS IN FAR-OFF BATTLES . " TO PUT IT BLUNTLY, 
" SAID RED CHINA, " WHOEVER CONSIDERS THAT A REVOLUTION CAN 
BE MADE ONLY IF EVERYTHING IS PLAIN SAILING, ONLY IF THERE 
IS AN ADVANCE GUARANTEE AGAINST FAILURE, IS CERTAINLY NOT A REVOLUTIONARY 
. " KEEP TALKING . PEKING'S PUNCH WAS NEATLY TIMED TO 
CATCH THE KREMLIN OFF BALANCE . IT LANDED ON THE EVE 
OF A SPECIAL CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING CALLED TO DISCUSS RUSSIA'S INTERNAL 
IDEOLOGICAL TROUBLES . FOR FOUR DAYS THE RUSSIANS WERE STUNNED AND 
SPEECHLESS . FINALLY THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ANGRILY ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD 
NOT EVEN BOTHER TO PUBLISH RED CHINA'S " DISTORTED, UNWARRANTED ATTACK 
. " CHINESE COMMUNIST NEWSPAPERS TRIUMPHANTLY HEADLINED RUSSIA'S REFUSAL TO PRINT 
THE CHINESE DOCUMENT . EVEN RUSSIA'S VAUNTED SPACE FEATS WERE NOTHING 
THAT NIKITA COULD TAKE CREDIT FOR . " DURING THE STALIN 
ERA HE WAS A THIRDOR EVEN FOURTH-RATE MAN, " THE NEWSPAPER 
REPORTED . " HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH NUCLEAR AND 
SPACE DEVELOPMENTS . / IN RUSSIA'S OWN BAILIWICK, THE CHINESE REDS 
ALSO STAYED ON THE OFFENSIVE . COMMUNIST RUMANIA, WHICH HAS BEEN 
FEUDING WITH THE KREMLIN OVER MOSCOW'S INTERFERENCE IN ITS ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, 
GLEEFULLY PUBLISHED A LENGTHY SUMMARY OF THE RED CHINESE INDICTMENT . 
PEKING'S EMBASSY IN MOSCOW BOLDLY DISTRIBUTED RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE COPIES OF ITS MANIFESTO 
. CALLERS WERE GREETED BY AN ATTACHE, AND AFTER A POLITE 
CHAT OVER TEA, GOT AS MANY TRANSLATIONS OF THE 63-PAGE DOCUMENT 
AS THEY WANTED . 