A TAR AT oo 8 a [mm aaah ens TVA rn Wa Vf) TINIE 2, lel SN ats MATTER —————— | Magazine Section neal ——e Premier Khrushchey on the new program. BY DENNIS OGDEN FOUR - MINUTE standing Ovation greeted N. S. } Khrushchev at. the end of his » Six-hour speech presenting the 7 Soviet Communist Party’s 20- } Year program for peace and | Plenty to the 22nd Congress | here, Party First Secretary. Khrushchev likened the Soviet tL Communist Party’s three pro- | &ams — the first was in 1902 aq the second in 1919—to a three- -stage rocket. The first stage wrested Rus- 4 Sia away from capitalism, the | cond set it on course to } Socialism and the third now sf | being adopted would place it 7 ™ the: orbit of Communism, he told the 6,000 delegates and 7 Suests from 80 countries. “It is a wonderful rocket,” he a ] reclared amid applause. “It is : following the course charted | >y the founders of Marxism, 7} %Nd its fuel is the vigour and | “nergy of thé builders of Com- 2s | Munism.” -fiy, :: The draft new program en-| Yisageg a growth in industrial 7 “Ytput equivalent to the emer- “1 -Sence of five more Soviet hions, while that in agricul- jure will be equivalent to more ‘an two more, he commented. “No MORE WAR When the Soviet Union be- Comes economically the strong- “Sst power in the world, the ' World balance will tilt, the in- ternational barometer turn to + Clear” and the menace of war "80, never to return. The outcome of the peaceful > competition between the two systems will in the main de- he of peace and lof new Sovie On Nov. 7 the people of the Soviet Union will celsigeke the 44th anniversary of their socialist revolution. They will also be celebrating the vast new program for the building of Communism. Here we present q summary of the report by received new homes in recent years. The program now sets pend upon the result of the| the aim of eliminating all: sub- contest between the Soviet! standard housing within ten Union and America, said Mr. years. Khrushchev. Renewed applause paced The Soviet Union, he pledg- his acceptance of amendments ed, will overtake the United; talling for a speed-up in the in absolute. and per} nursery-school - States head output within ten years. By 1980 Soviet real income per head of the population will be 75 per cent higher than the American average. He outlined a breath-taking program of industrial expan- sion, irrigation and. land re- clamation, and for the opening up of the as yet untapped riches of the lands east of the Urals. He held out the prospect of an average fivefold increase in consumer goods _ production with increases in some branches, such as household goods, as high as tenfold. Textiles, footwear, food and household goods should be of no less concern than iron and steel, he emphasized. The draft program envis- ages free housing, free munici- pal transport, free water, gas and heating, free meals at work by 1980. Amid applause, he declared that the Party’s Central Com- mittee was ready to accept an amendment put forward dur- ing the pre-Congress discussion calling for a further speed-up in the housing program. SHORTEST DAY More than 50 million people —nearly a quarter of the en- tire Soviet population — have ‘building © pro- gram, and his announcement that the possiblity of mothers being able, if they wished, to work a shorter day would be studied. Western spokesmen call the new program a challenge, he went on. “Why then do they not ac- cept it- Why do they not switch industries to peace produc- tion? Why do they not increase wages, abolish rents, and in- troduce free medical services?” The program, he declared, “is not just breathtaking fig- ures. It is a plan for the crea- tion of a society in which man will be the master.” SCIENTIFIC TASKS . Among the tasks confronting Soviet scientists the program lists the harnessing of thermo- nuclear power, the conquest of space, the control of weather and climate and the charting of fundamentally new paths in medicine, The program calls for the drawing of more and more people into government and management and for the in- creasing tranference of govern-} mental functions to voluntary bodies. It raises and resolves an im- portant question of Commun- is theory and practice — the}. HIGHER LIVING STANDARDS. The new program Vefold increase in consumer goods production. iottake the U.S. in per head output. By 1980 real ‘On will be 75 percent higher than the U.S. average. See a In 10 holds out the prospect of a years the Soviet, Union will income per head of the popula- chevy. peety aim program These Russian children look forward joyously to the future. The new program adopted at the 22nd Congress of the Soviet Communist Party will give them, when they grow to adulthood, the highest standard of living in the world. They will live in the first. Communist society. development of the dictator- ship of the protetariat into a state of the whole people, the character and purpose of this state, and its future under Communism. THE NEW STATE The state of the whole people is a new stage in the development of the Socialist state, the all-important phase on the road from Socialist statehood to Communist public self-government,” Khrushchev declared. The experience of the Soviet Union and the Peoples’ Demo- cracies has fully confirmed the Marxist-Leninist theory that the victory of Socialism is pos- sible only if the dictatorship of the proletariat is establish- ed. i : But it no longer takes a dic- tatorship of the proletariat to build Communism. “The state will remain long after the victory of the first phase of Communism. “The process of its wither- ing away will be a long one; it will cover an entire histori- cal. epoch and will not end: until society is completely ripe for self-government. “For some time features of ‘state administration and public self-government will inter- mingle. ' “In this process the domestic functions of the state will de- velop and change and gradu- -ally lose their political char- acter. - “It is only after a developed Communist society is built up in the ‘USSR, and provided Socialism wins in the interna- tional arena, that there will be -}mo longer any need for the state, and it will wither away.” “Socialism is extending -democracy, while capitalism is restricting whatever demo- cracy existed”, said Khrush- Noting the tieups between capitalist governments and big business, he recalled how, as a result of election-rigging, the French Communist Party with over three million votes got ten seats, while reactionary parties with far fewer votes got over 180. SOCIALIST MODEL “We are doing and will con- tinue to do our best to perfect our democracy and to make it a model of the Socialist way of life,” he declared. “Education of people in the Communist spirit is an all-im- portant element of Communist construction,’ he went on. Among the tasks of mould- ing a new man he listed the consolidation of the Commun- ist world outlook, education through labor, consolidation of the principles of Communist morality, cultural develop- ; ment. “Communism is that sup- reme flowering of htimanity and of the human personality:” _ The draft program, he went on, was a sure barrier to the revival of any personality cult. “The Party must take the measures needed to bar the way to the personality cult nes all time.” Soviets perfect missile defense The Soviet Union announced last week that it has solved the problem of destroying inter- continental ballistic missiles in flight. The statement was made at the Communist Party congress by Soviet defense minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. ; Western observers suggested this major breakthrough in the defense capacity of the Soviet Union was a result of current nuclear tests. N are Oy PERIINE Pon AMT) PTT ot ten “ni «ai a