“HE leaders of the Alban- ‘ian Party of Labor are Seonehint: along a dangerous “toad; that of foresaking the meena ments) eile. of “Seeking: to camseectoue ‘their < ©akandonment’ of. the “Tine. of the: world Communist ‘ Mevement; > they: present matters as if they. oppose “only “the -decisions of the e - 20th and 22nd congresses of -theCPSU and not the line of “the. entire world Communist . ta0vement, -Hoxha asserts that the CPSU is.trying to make its _ decisions “binding upon all Parties,” but this cannot de- tude anyone. Any desire to impose its program and -policy upon other varties is allen to ‘Soviet’ Communists. tt was the CPSU central _ committee that insisted’ on deleting the formulation pro- “posed by fraternal parties, that the Soviet Union stands _ at the head of the Commun- “ist movement. In doing this “Our Party stressed once again its attitude to the full equal- ity and independence of all Marxist-Leninist parties. Not one of the 80 Com- nmunist and Workers’ parties tepresented at the 22nd Con- gress had actually - disputed the essentially correct criti- cism of the leadership of the -APL made. by the CPSU. - ANTLLENINST STAND The Albanian leaders hold their own, secluded anti- - Leninist stand on major prob- ’ lems in the Communist niove- Ment. Hoxha says he MISSEREEE with those who “consider ' Seaceful co-existence to be “the: general line of foreign "Policy of the socialist coun- ‘ tries.” Is this not a direct de- parture from the 1960 State- “Ment. of -the Meeting of Fra- “ ternal Parties, to which Al- ’ bania subscribed? Take the disarmament ” Problem, The 1960 Statement deelares: ee “The - Meeting ~ considers a ‘the implementation. of Program for general and -€onplete disarmament put - forward’ by the Soviet Union ie would: be of historic import- >, WCE for the destinies of man- : king. ae ~Hoxha - alleges that the : Soviet. Union calls on social- . St countries to disarm uni- fateralty and to surrender to the Mercy. of the imperialists. "Even the’ enemies of com- : munism know the ~ Soviet . Union stands for general and . €Omplete disarmament by all countries and that the USSR . And the socialist community - ‘will strengthen their armed forces as long as the im- : Berialists evade negotiations : 0M disarmament and conduct z an. aggressive policy. soe en OF FACTS _. - The Albanian leaders went - so far as to ‘interpret the ~ Countér-revolutionary “upris- Ing: in Hungary,’ ‘this adven- _ ture of world’s imperialism aud internal’ reaction, as the tesult of the criticism of the ox recent editorial in Pravda explains the Sov- iet. criticisms. of the leadership of the Alban- ian. Party of Labor. The Western press has at- tempted to ¢captalize on the differences and to fan them. Here the Pa- cific Tribune presents an abridged summary of the Pravda editorial so that our readers may know the real issues involved. Stalin personality cult at the 20th Congress. The Albanian leaders ac- cused the 20th Congress of “setting the role of leaders against the democracy of the masses,” thus violating Len- in’s theses on the role of the masses and leaders as ex- pounded in Left Wing Com- munism, an Infantile Dis- order. Our Party irreconcilably comes out against any mani- festations of the personality cult, but it consistently ad- heres to Lenin’s instructions as to the authority of lead- ers who correctly understand social requirements and. are true to the principles of scientific communism. HOXHA “LOGIC” The Albanian leaders reason: either the personal- ity cult or an anarchist re- jection of all authority. With this ‘logic’. Hoxha tries to portray the criticism of the Stalin cult and its harmful consequences as a desire to “slander a whole glorious era, the era of construction of socialism in the Soviet Union.” Hoxha claims to “defend” this glorious era! Well, you know it is better for us not to have such de- fenders! Our Party and our ieeeple know very well the heroic feats accomplished by them at the construction projects of the five-year plans and in the severe battles of the war. | We Shall let no one do in- justice to our glorious past. - We know the personality ‘cult greatly hindered the dis- play .of the inexhaustible energy of our Party and people. Had there not been the Stalin cult, our progress in the construction of social- ism and communism would have been much. greater and more significant. “We have now eliminated all the obstacles resulting from the personality cult and are eradicating its harmful consequences. We are giving ever greater play to the creative forces of the Party and the people. Our country is moving toward commun- dsm with an ever-growing confiderwe. The Albanian leaders dis- tort the history of the CPSU ‘and the development of the Soviet state striving to iden- tify the entire experience of the: GPSU and Soviet people witl® the Stalin «cult. In this, Albanian leaders forsake Marxist - Leninist “policies they link up with the revis- ,ionists. Both impose the per- sonality cult on the Soviet social system. CULT IN ALBANIA “It would” not ‘be amiss ‘to veoale ‘the: history. of the: per-|: sonality cult: in the’ Albanian Party of- Labor. -The:3rd APL Congress in--1956. fully. ap- proved the principled criti- cism of the Stalin cult. It also. severly~ criticized: the personality cult in the APL and stressed the need for its eradiction. Now he declares it only existed in an embryonic” state and nothing is left: of it. The Albanian leaders did not carry out the resolutions of the 3rd APL Congress. ‘Their activities bear the fea- tures of an anti-party plot at the top; a group among the leadership has violated the will of the Party. Before the 3rd Congress, communists had levelled sharp and principled _ criti- cisms at the Albanian leader- ship for violation of the Len- inist standards of Party life, for undegrounded reprisals against those thinking differ- ently. The communists who spoke out were thrown into prisons and concentration camps. POLICE METHODS Today, police methods against those championing friendship with the- USSR are openly applied. Comrade Liri Belishova, a former member of the politi- cal bureau and secretary of the APL central committee, comrade Cocho Tashko, a veteran of the Albanian Com- munist. movement, chairman of the central auditing com- mission of the APL, comrade Matvo Chomo, a member of the APL central committee and minister of agriculture and many other honest Al- banian communist - interna- tionalists were persecuted. Of the initial composition] of the political bureau of the central. committee of the APL, .Hoxha alone remains in the political arena. The imperialists have met the “present ‘“‘special’’ course of the Albanian leaders with unconcealed approval. The New. York Post urges. the United States to help all those who come out against the Soviet Union in order to “upset the balance” in the in- ternational socialist system. to split it wherever possible, in the international ee war. (The Pravda editorial out- lines the actions taken by the Albanian leadership to lead to a break in diplomatic re- lations between Albania and the Soviet Union. Then concludes:) The time will come coast the Albania Communists, the Albanian people will have their say and then the Al- banian. leaders will have to “answer for the harm they caused their- country, their people and the cause of build: ing socialism in Albania. - ae “ it}: tive suicide” of the nuclear In his’ New: Year’ Ss méssage, Jean Marchand, ‘president of the © Confederation’ of ‘Na- ‘tional Trade: Unions, ‘also “‘made=: a “powerful: “plea for peaceful. coexistence ‘and an end to colonialism, and call- ed. for unity of all forces of the nation to wipe out unem- ployment. “The. Canadian people the government -it: forth- rightly rejects:the collective suicide which would follow its participation: ‘in the nuc- lear arms race. “The CNTU opposes not only the manufacture of nu- clear missiles by the Cana- dian government, but also their use by our armies and their storage on our territory. “Let us wish that the year 1962 will bring not another comic scene like exercise Tocsin-B but rather a clear and concise position by Cana- da for the realization of peace in the world.” FANTASTIC Earlier, Marchand . stated that in Canada “we have not lived through the experience of war which perhaps ex- plains why -we have not yet reacted very much in face of the danger of nuclear war.” » Speaking of the “fantastic power that modern science confers to man today,’ Mar- chand said this ‘must not make us forget however, an- other characteristic of our epoch; all men are now neighbors, distanées no long- er exist. “We are entering a stage in the life of humanity where solidarity between men ‘the should rise together to show} French Canada union leader hits A-arms ON of French Canada’s top trade union leaders has urged the Canadian people to demonstrate their mass opposition to any plans by the government to acquire nuclear weapons or to participate in the “collec. arms race. ceases to be ‘a~ special cons “cept of moral: ethics in order to become the basis of our survival and “our ee destiny.”- «-- Marchand called on the Canadian government to give more aid to the peoples of under-developed ~-coun- tries. ae : “Peace,” he said, ‘would not be able to subsist where injustice reigns. It is more than time for the Western, countries to admit that their economic -. social structurés are not without fault. “With the frenzied egotism called colonialism, it is also necessary to liquidate nation-« al egotisms which hold back the realization of the urgency of the needs of certain peo. ples. : PROMOTE MANKIND “In the hour of the H- bomb and interplanetary roc kets, all men have to become conscious of their fundamen« tal equality and learn the duties of fraternity. Those especially who call them-« selves Christians must be in the forefront of attempts at enriching and promoting mankind, whether he be white, yellow or black.” Greeting all Canadian workers, he added “I wish them in particular to have the courage and the perseverance necessary to carry on the fight to build a world more just where the division will be less great between a privileged hand- ful and the mass of the peo- ple, as well as between the industrialized and the under« developed nations.” N the. files of the nazi min-; Pia of the interior now held by the. authorities of the German Democratic Repub- lic, research workers _recent- ly found. a revealing letter written. in -1943° by . Konrad Adenauer, - today. Chancellor of West -Germany. When ‘the nazis came to power in' 1938 they had dis- missed Konrad Adenauer as Lord Mayor of Cologne, and ‘deprived him of his pension. Adenauer felt that he had been unjustly treated, and on Aug. 10, 1934, he wrote a 10-page letter to Wilhelm Frick, Prussian and Reich minister. of the __ interior, claiming that he had always been “‘nice to the nazis’: and asking for his pension back. ‘to Frick was hanged as a war criminal in Nuremberg. on Oct. 16, 1946. In his letter, long extracts are published for the first time in the: current issue of. the German Democratic Re- port, Adenauer makes these points: Always nice to Nazis 1. “IT have always treated. the Nazi Party in an abso- lutely correct*manner,”° even when this involved ignoring directives’ given by the gov= ernment of the Weimar Re- public. 2. “For years I allowed the Nazi Party to hoist its swas« tika flag .. . contrary to the decrees of the Prussian min- istry of the interior. 3.“T ‘stated that. such @ large party as the Nazi Party must undoubtedly be repre- sented in a leading capacity in the government. 4. “It is extremely painful be dismissed on the grounds that I am ‘nationally unreliable’. I urgently re quest that the decision be re« vised.” As a result of his begging letter, Adenauer’s pension was restored. Throughout the entire nazi period the nazi state paid him an annual pen- from which (and photostats)! sion of 12,000 marks — about $2,750, and in 1938 made him. a.-Special .grant. of -280,000 — ‘marks (over $5,000) because he had been deprived of his | post as Lord Mayor. January 12, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7