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By BERT WHYTE

Leading Communists from
more than fifty parties have
spoken in the Georgyevsky Hall
of the Grand Kremlin Palace
where the International Confer-
ence of Communist and Work-
ers’ Parties continues its work.

It is obviously impossible to
summarize these speeches but
here are some quotes and cap-
sule condensations of pertinent
passages;

L. BOUHALI, ALGERIA: The

_ urgency of the Conference’s con-

vocation was caused by the in-
creased aggressiveness of Amer-
ican imperialism, which mani-
fested itself in Vietnam, the
Middle East and other regions of
the world. All progressive peo-
ple must rally their ranks in
order to give every assistance to
the heroic Vietnamese fighters
and to display their solidarity
with them, because this is ne-
cessary for the Vietnamese peo-
ple’s victory. Similarly in the
Middle East, the concerted ac-
tions of the entire international
Communist and Workers’ move-
ment can increase aid to the
Arab peoples, victims of the im-
perialist-Zionist aggression, and
in particular to the pillaged Pal-
estinian people.

WALTER ULBRIGHT, GER-
MAN DEMOCRATIC REPUB-
LIC: The Socialist Unity Party of
Germany approves the submitted
draft document which fully ac-
cords with the provisions of the
consultative meeting. It com-
bines well a concrete setting
forth of the tasks of the common
struggle against imperialism
with an analysis of the main
processes of international deve-
lopment. Despite all subversive
actions of world imperialism and
the difficulties of internal deve-
lopment, the community of so-
cialist states has on the whole
strengthened and consolidated in
recent years and its influence in
the world has grown. It is due to
the existence of the German
Democratic Republic and its so-
Cialist policy of peace, pursued
in alliance with the U.S.S.R., that
the German people and all the
peoples of Europe can live in the
longest peaceful period: of our
century despite the aggressive
policy of West German imperial-
ism.

_G. CEAUCESCU, RUMANIA:

Stressing that it was necessary to
conduct consistent struggle
against bourgeois ideology, the
speaker noted the idea was un-
acceptable and _ inconceivable
that the peoples, the Communist
Parties of socialist countries,
which had won political power
and built socialism, could re-
nounce their revolutionary gains
on the call of bourgeois propa-
ganda, however refined.

Since speeches at the confer-
ence contained condemnations
of the activities of other parties
and they were censured, Ceau-
sescu said there were instances
in the history of the Communist
movement when grave charges
were levelled against some Com-
munist and Workers’ parties, in-
cluding socialist countries, that

. later proved to be groundless.

Drawing conclusions from all
this, the Rumanian Communist
Party declares here that it is
fully resolved not to repeat such
mistakes any more and never to
take such a road again.

L. CORVALAN, CHILE: Hav-
ing expressed his party’s support
for the draft documents Corva-

lan said the main thing at the

Conference was not the diver-:

gencies.

The differences existing on
various questions were stated
openly and in a comradely man-
ner and this is yet another merit
of the Conference. We are con-
vinced that such differences of
views will not prevent us from
leaving the Conference even
more united.

K. JESPERSON, DENMARK:

The unity of the Communist
movement cannot and must not
be restricted to oral statements
alone. Actions are needed. No at-
tempts to justify deviations to
the right or “left” can replace a
genuine striving for unity on the
basis of the principles of Marx-
ism-Leninism.It is our duty to
uphold these principles.

C. MASIEL, PARAGUAY: Im-
perialism’s aggressive strategy is
spearheaded primarily against
Socialist states but it can no
longer regain the historical init-
iative it has lost. Vietnam’s ex-
perience shows that imperialism
can no longer decide the destin-
ies of peoples at will.

The present stage is character-
ized by greater possibilities to
strike new blows at imperialism
and for the revolutionary forces
to score new successes. The
draft main document took into
consideration the demands made
of all Communist parties by the
present international situation —
loyalty to Marxism-Leninism,
the need of struggle against na-
tionalistic narrow-mindedness,
against right and left opportun-
istic deviations in theory and pol-
icy, the need to overcome both
revisionism and dogmatism and
sectarian leftist adventurism.
The main document’s entire con-
tent is directed at ensuring the
unity of action of Communist
parties.

W. GOMULKA, POLAND: Im-
perialism is no longer capable of
regaining the historical initiative
it has lost. Socialism now deter-
mines the main road of man-
kind’s development. The policy
of peaceful coexistence has no-
thing in common with defense of
the existing social system, with

~ renunciation of class and nation-

al liberation struggles. This pol-
icy creates the most favorable,
from the point of view of popu-
lar mass interest, conditions for
settlement of class conflicts and
ensures further development of
social progress without a new
world war.

The global strategy of imper-
ialism should be counteracted by
a common front of the interna-
tional Communist movement
which is the vanguard of all
anti-imperialist forces. The rela-
tion to the principles of interna-
tionalism is the main criterion of
correctness of the political line
of each Communist party.

WALDECK ROCHET,
FRANCE: Firmly adhering both
to the principles of the sover-
eignty and equality of each Com-
munist party, as well-as to the
principle of proletarian interna-
tionalism, the French Commun-
ist Party is convinced that dif-
ferences between fraternal par-
ties must not impede the joint
struggle against imperialism.

We approve the draft docu-
ments of the Conference and
favor their adoption.

J. FARIA, VENEZUELA: The
Central Committee of the Com-
munist Party of Venezuela re-

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grets, naturally, that there are
ideological and political differ-
ences in the ranks of the world
Communist movement. But we
are not pessimists. Our opinion
is that real Communists will al-
ways find an opportunity for
joint work. We are facing a very
serious, real fact, that imperial-
ism benefits from our controver-
sies. This is the cause of our
real concern and this is also the
cause, as far as we know, of
concern of our brothers in other
countries. We believe the discus-
sion here will help us determine
the ways of struggle for indepen-
dence of the oppressed countries,
for freedom of the peoples en-
slaved by capitalism:

A. SAARINEN, FINLAND: The
Communist Parties are operating
in rather different conditions.
Their struggle has different his-
torical traditions and their many
pressing tasks and immediate
aims are also different. This is
due to the peculiarities of the
situation, the differences in the
level of social development in
individual countries. Our Party
stresses, meanwhile, that under
the present circumstances the

-Communist Parties have many

more things that unite them.
There is no more important task
today than concentration of
forces for the struggle against
imperialism, against its dan-
gerous policy of aggression.

TODOR ZHIVKOV, BULGAR-
JA: Sitting in this hall and listen-
ing to the speeches of delegates,
one cannot help having a feeling
of élan and pride at the sense of
belonging to the great Commun-
ist family; one cannot help feel-
ing glad at the failure of those
who tried to sow doubt and bring
us to the point of a split, one
cannot help feeling a surge of
determination to work and fight
for the cohesion and unity of ac-
tion of our movement, for the
triumph of our cause.

We believe the draft main
document gives a true assess-
ment of the modern epoch, cor-
rectly formulates the tasks in
the struggle against imperialism
and for unity of action by the
Communist and Workers’ Par-

. ties. Our delegation supports the

draft main document, and also
the other documents submitted
to the meeting. —

Today, life keeps making an
ever more imperative demand on
us Communists to confront the
alliance of imperialists with a
united front of the working class
and all anti-imperialist forces.

E. BERLINGUER, ITALY: We
believe that to overcome the
present difficulties there is need
for long and patient work, there
is need for action on various
planes, with the aid of methods
appropriate to each of them.

We believe, first of all, that the
free exchange of opinion between
us On all the major political and
theoretical questions facing our
movement must become ever
more outspoken.

We must advance in the realm
of theory as well, because the
point is to restore Marxism-
Leninism to the power of its cul-
tural, theoretical, critical, scien-
tific and historical direction, rid-
ding it of the diverse revision-
ist interpretations, including
positivist and dogmatic interpre-
tations, which have been to no
little extent characteristic of
Marxist thinking in the last few
decades. f

These tasks, as comrade

Brezhnev has noted, are best
solved at conferences of a scien-
tific nature, which could be call-
ed more often,

There is another important
side to the type of relations
which should exist between the
parties. On this score our opinion
has been and remains that given
the maturity and scope achieved
by our movement there can be
no leading centre, no _leader-
party, no leader-state.

JANOS KADAR, HUNGARY:
The task of our Conference is
to work out a principled plat-
form and a program of action
which would be in keeping with
the demands of struggle against
imperialism and which would
enlist efficient support from all
Communist and Workers’ par-
ties, of all anti-imperialist forces.
Our delegation was authorized
and intends to do its utmost for
a successful settlement of these
tasks of the Conference.

‘We were guided in _ all
our activities by the principles
of internationalism, by the sense
of solidarity, and by nothing else
at every stage of the events in
Czechoslovakia. We are interest-
ed in one thing only, we want
the problems in Czechoslovakia
to be settled in a socialist way.
The internal questions of the
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
should be settled by the Com-
munist Party, the working class
and the people of Czechoslova-
kia. We believe they will do so.
Moreover the Central Committee
of the Czechoslovak fraternal
party has lately taken the matter
resolutely into its own hands,

We often stress that all parties
of the international Communist
movement are equal. This is
really so, and this is good. But
few words have been said recent-
ly that though we are equal, even
if all the proportions are taken
into consideration, we, speaking
frankly, must state that the Com-
munist Party of the Soviet Union
and the Soviet people, while hav-
ing equal rights with us and not
claiming more, are bearing an
immeasurably greater responsi-
bility than any of us. In the spirit
of internationalism, disinterest-
edly, they have made and are
making bigger sacrifices than
anybody else in the interests of
the cause of Communism, for
freedom of the peoples, preven-
tion of a world war, in the name
of a happy future of humanity.
A correct, principled attitude to
the Soviet Union is one of the
most important questions of our
unity, internationalism, cohesion
of all anti-imperialist forces. This
Conference in Moscow rivets the
attention of the entire world,
both of our friends and our foes.
Let the Conference justify the
hopes of the Communists and
progressive people of the entire
world, the hopes linked with this
international forum,

Y. TSEDENBAL, MONGOLIA:
At our meeting, which has con-
centrated its attention on the
problem of fighting against im-
perialism, the questions of dif-
ferences cannot be brought to
the fore. It would be even more
erroneous to demand the reso-
lution of these differences as a
condition for coordinating ac-
tion against the common ene-
my. The very fact that the
meeting has been called and
the adoption of the documents
submitted for its consideration
will undoubtedly be an impor-

tant step in the gfa
nation of the existin ai
ties. Our Party comes 4
the patient elimination cont
differences between aco |
munist Parties on the Pr

s jonalis®
of proletarian internation’

Our delegation express? ot?
full agreement wit tae t |
posal of the CPSU an Hes |
ber of other fraternal pa
organize systematic ©

of opinions and to hold ae
tional theoretical confe

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tasks in the struggle nces
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other issues. This m
dialogue is a sign of te"
ity of our movement.

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reach agreement D re we
and not by vote. If Oe
a majority on an a
minority could not oe si
majority to give UP | rity
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not expect the minority vote |)
up theirs. Consensus, BY ogket
is the method we have ©
out.

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amination as to their 1 ork
substance, in order t0 requ
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to return to these questio” ris
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appraisal of the situatl? int
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problems with courage im
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convene next year.