COMMUNISTS THE PLACE IS BERLIN, THE PROBLEM IS PEKING ANTICIPATING PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S 
TUMULTUOUS WEST BERLIN RECEPTION, NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV HASTILY ARRANGED A TRIP OF 
HIS OWN . HE DECIDED TO GO TO EAST BERLIN, OSTENSIBLY 
TO CELEBRATE THE 70TH BIRTHDAY OF EAST GERMANY'S SPADEBEARDED COMMUNIST BOSS 
WALTER ULBRICHT . JUST 48 HOURS AFTER KENNEDY, ON THE WEST 
SIDE OF THE WALL, HAD CRIED, " I AM A BERLINER, 
" KHRUSHCHEV ARRIVED ON THE EAST SIDE, BENT ON SHOWING THAT 
HE WAS A BERLINER TOO . BUT THE THIN WELCOMING CROWD 
WAS NOT EXACTLY EAGER TO MAKE HIM AN HONORARY CITIZEN . 
MINUTES BEFORE KHRUSHCHEV'S TURBOPROP LANDED AT SCHONEFELD AIRPORT, AN ANNOUNCER DRILLED 
THE SPECTATORS IN A PROPER GREETING : " NOW, WHEN OUR 
FRIEND STEPS OUT OF HIS PLANE, WE WILL ALL CHEER IN 
UNISON, HIP, HIP, HURRAH . " WHEN NIKITA STEPPED OUT OF 
HIS PLANE, ALL SMILES, THE CROWD WAS SILENT AND ONLY THE 
HONOR GUARD OF SOLDIERS SHOUTED, OFFICIALLY . IN CONTRAST TO PRESIDENT 
KENNEDY'S WELCOME BY MORE THAN A MILLION WEST BERLINERS, A SCANT 
250,000 EAST BERLIN FACTORY WORKERS, SECRETARIES AND SCHOOLCHILDREN, MARCHING IN CLOSED 
FORMATIONS, TURNED OUT FOR KHRUSHCHEV . ALONG PARTS OF THE 16-MILE 
ROUTE TO THE RED CITY HALL, THE ONLY SPECTATORS WERE THE 
VOLKSPOLIZEI . THE REAL REASON FOR KHRUSHCHEV'S PRESENCE IN EAST BERLIN, 
OF COURSE, WAS NOT THAT HE WANTED TO HELP ULBRICHT BLOW 
OUT THE CANDLES, NOR WAS IT ENTIRELY A MATTER OF TRYING 
TO COUNTERACT THE EMOTIONS STIRRED UP BY THE KENNEDY VISIT . 
MOST OF ALL, KHRUSHCHEV WANTED TO MEET WITH HIS EAST EUROPEAN 
SATELLITE CHIEFS TO CLOSE RANKS BEFORE THE CHINESE ARRIVE IN MOSCOW 
THIS WEEK TO CONFER ON THE WORSENING SINO-SOVIET IDEOLOGICAL SPLIT . 
DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM . THEIR DISPUTE GREW SO ANGRY LAST WEEK THAT 
MOSCOW RESORTED TO EXPELLING CHINESE DIPLOMATS, A TREATMENT HITHERTO RESERVED FOR 
WESTERN REPRESENTATIVES . BEHIND THIS LATEST EXPLOSION WAS A 24,000-WORD PEKING 
BLAST AT KHRUSHCHEV'S POLICIES, DESIGNED TO SHOW THAT HIS PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE 
LINE IS A COWARDLY BETRAYAL OF TRUE RED REVOLUTIONARIES, THAT HE 
IS SHILLY-SHALLYING WITH THE " PAPER TIGERS " OF IMPERIALISM, AND 
THAT HE IS " SUBVERTING " OTHER COMMUNIST PARTIES . WHEN 
THE RUSSIANS REFUSED TO PUBLISH THE PEKING LETTER, ISSUED TWO WEEKS 
AGO, THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN MOSCOW STARTED CIRCULATING COPIES, THEREBY PROVOKING 
THE KREMLIN TO THROW OUT THREE EMBASSY ATTACHES AND TWO OTHER 
CHINESE . PEKING CALLED THE ACTION " UNREASONABLE AND UNTENABLE, " 
NOTED THAT IT WAS " UNPRECEDENTED IN THE HISTORY OF THE 
RELATIONS BETWEEN OUR TWO SOCIALIST COUNTRIES, " AND ACCUSED MOSCOW OF 
DELIBERATELY TRYING TO CREATE OBSTACLES TO THE SCHEDULED TALKS . EVEN 
AS KHRUSHCHEV ARRIVED IN EAST BERLIN, THE CHINESE EMBASSY THERE WENT 
RIGHT AHEAD DISTRIBUTING COPIES OF THE PEKING MANIFESTO TO INTERESTED BYSTANDERS 
. STALIN'S GHOST . ON HAND FOR TALKS WITH KHRUSHCHEV IN 
EAST BERLIN WERE THE SATELLITE CHIEFS OF POLAND, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, HUNGARY AND 
BULGARIA . ABSENT, AT LEAST FROM AMONG EARLY ARRIVALS : RUMANIAN 
RED BOSS GHEORGHE GHEORGHIUDEJ, WHO IS NOT ONLY FEUDING WITH MOSCOW 
OVER ECONOMIC PLANNING BUT IS WARM TOWARD PEKING, ALLOWED ITS MANIFESTO 
TO APPEAR IN THE RUMANIAN PRESS . WHAT CONFRONTED THE SMALL-SCALE 
RED SUMMIT MEETING WAS THE PICTURE OF THE SINO-SOVIET RIFT TEARING 
INTO THE COMMUNIST FABRIC ALL OVER THE WORLD . IN MOSCOW, 
A MASSIVE INTERNATIONAL CONVOCATION OF FEMALE COMRADES FOUND THE RUSSIA-CHINA ISSUE 
A CAUSE FOR NEARHYSTERIA (SEE FOLLOWING STORY) . SUCH RED FRONT 
ORGANIZATIONS AS THE WORLD FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS AND THE WORLD 
PEACE COUNCIL HAVE ALSO STARTED SQUABBLING OVER THE ISSUE . IN 
ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA, MANY COMMUNIST PARTIES ARE FEELING THE 
SPLIT ; WHERE COMMUNISM HAS PROSPERED BY APPEARING " MODERATE, " 
PARTY LEADERS BLUNTLY DENOUNCE RED CHINA AND ARE BEGINNING TO PURGE 
PEKING PARTISANS . EVEN IN WESTERN EUROPE'S OVERWHELMINGLY PRO-MOSCOW PARTIES, SOME 
YOUNG REDS HAVE RESPONDED TO PEKING'S REVOLUTIONARY ZEAL, HAVE JOINED RED 
CHINESE " FRIENDSHIP SOCIETIES . " KHRUSHCHEV HIMSELF BUSILY COUNTERATTACKED AGAINST 
THE CHINESE . BEFORE HIS BERLIN TRIP, AT A CENTRAL COMMITTEE 
MEETING IN MOSCOW WHOSE CHIEF TASK WAS TO COPE WITH THE 
RESTLESSNESS OF RUSSIA'S OWN INTELLECTUALS, KHRUSHCHEV DEALT WITH THE MORE URGENT 
PEKING PROBLEM . TYPICALLY, HE INTERPRETED PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S " STRATEGY OF 
PEACE " SPEECH AT THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAST MONTH AS A 
SIGN OF WESTERN WEAKNESS, USED IT AS EVIDENCE THAT HIS POLICY 
OF PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE IS PAYING OFF . THE RED CHINESE, SAID 
KHRUSHCHEV, ARE REALLY PESSIMISTS IN PURSUING A NOW-OR-NEVER REVOLUTIONARY DOGMA, BECAUSE 
THEY WOULDN'T BE IN SUCH A DESPERATE HURRY TO START WARS 
AND REVOLUTIONS IF THEY REALLY BELIEVED IN THE LONG-RANGE, INEVITABLE VICTORY 
OF COMMUNISM . MOREOVER, THEY USE " THE NATIONAL, RACIAL APPROACH 
" IN WIDENING THE SCHISM BETWEEN COMMUNISTS . KHRUSHCHEV ALSO HEATEDLY 
DEFENDED HIS DESTALINIZATION DRIVE, ATTACKED MAO TSE-TUNG (WITHOUT NAMING HIM) FOR 
BUILDING HIS OWN CULT OF PERSONALITY . SAID KHRUSHCHEV, RAISING HIS 
FAVORITE GHOST : " WE ARE AGAINST LEADERS WHO BELIEVE THAT 
THEY HAVE BEEN SENT BY GOD, AND THAT THE PEOPLE ARE 
A MASS THAT MUST LISTEN ONLY TO THEM AND APPLAUD . 
THAT WAS TYPICAL OF STALIN . " AMID THESE EXCHANGES, THE 
ATMOSPHERE COULD SCARCELY BE MORE UNPLEASANT FOR THE SCHEDULED SINO-SOVIET ENCOUNTER 
THIS WEEK IF INDEED BOTH PARTIES ARE NOT TOO ANGRY TO 
GO THROUGH WITH IT . THE SPLIT, WESTERN OBSERVERS WERE CAREFUL 
TO POINT OUT, WAS STILL NOT " FINAL AND FORMAL . 
" BUT AS AN INFORMAL QUARREL, IT SEEMED TO BE AT 
LEAST IN THE QUARTER-FINALS . 