slaught on Hungary

The aggressive French colonial war against the Algerian people has now entered its

sixth year. Photos show (top left) machine gunners of the Algerian National Libera-
tion Army; (top right) an army unit on the march; (lower left) women fighters
raising the flag of the provisional. government of the Algerian Republic; and (lower
right) a soldier of the Liberation Army entertaining his comrades with a dance. Forces
for peace all over the world are calling for negotiations between the French government
and the Algerian provisional government to end the war on the basis of recognition of

Expect summit meet in April: —
cold war strategists plot battle

By NELSON CLARKE

_ The talk in Western capitals is that the long-awaited summit meeting will be
held in April. British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd gave this date in Rome recen
ly. Even cold warrior Adenauer after talking to De Gaulle made the same prediction.

Insofar’ as the Soviet Union :

is concerned, Premier Khrush-
chev made clear in Budapest
that, ““‘We have always believ-
ed heads-of-government meet-
ings to be beneficial, and the
sooner these meetings are or-
ganized the better.”

"However, he also said that
while the summit could have
peen convened before he visits
France in March, General De
Gaullle’s wish to exchange op-
inions with him before “is not
without justification.”

‘The April date cannot. of

course be regarded as finally.

fixed.

“Also the question of the

agenda is far from settled. The
New York Times claims that
the Western powers have
agreed tentatively to Berlin;
disarmament; non-interference
in the affairs of other nations
(a pious phrase with a sinister
ring in light of the current on-
in the
UN); and aid to underdevelop-
ed countries.

This account must be treated
with some reserve in view of
the intractable opposition of
Adenauer to a discussion of
Berlin to which he even hpyo-
critically counterposes the is-
sue of ‘disarmament.

. Premier Khrushchev. stood.
this matter back on -its feet
when ke said: —

“The Soviet Union. has. sub-
mitted proposals on disarma-
ment . .. But. to ensure that
there is conflence on both
sides, we have. to settle the,
question. of West -Berlin. . .
If one folows the. logic now ad-.
vanced by the Western. coun--
tries, and. which Chancellor
Adenauer particularly advo-
cates, the only place in the
world where troops should be
preseryed is West Berlin. But
how, with such logic, is the
disarmament problem to-be
settled? Preservation of the
occupation . regime . runs fun-
damentally counter to the idea
of disarmament.” _

“The ‘efforts of some people

. te meet the new world situa-

tion. with an old, discredited
line is illustrated. by the state-
ment of the advisory council
of the Democratic Party in the
United. States, which, as-Max
Freedman, writing to: the Tor-
onto Star, says, ““embodies the
philosophy of Dean Acheson,
former secretary of state’’ (at
the time of the Korean war.)

The council,-. as Freedman
puts it; “questions the value of
negotiating. with Nikita
Khrushchev at a summit con-
ference next year,” . and re-
states the outworn view that

{all U.S. .negotiations-must be

conducted from
strength.”
‘Notwithstanding these sour
notes, President Eisenhower's
discussions in both Italy and
Turkey have stressed the use-
fulnes of a’ summit meeting.

“positions of

summit will be before the big
Western powers when they
meet in Paris after the presi-
dent's tour, a meeting which

ely by the peace forces every-

where.

place in 1956 in Hungary were

| entire working people. The or-

€|communism. They were al-
'|ready licking their lips seeing

The date and agenda for the

will need to be -watched clos-

Fact versus fiction

in Budapest early this month.

What Khrushchev said .
in his Budapest speech

(Below are excerpts from Soviet Premier Khrush-
-|¢hev’s address to the Hungarian Workers Party congress

torted the speech and ran lurid headlines such as, “I'm To
-|Blame For Hungary—Nikita.” This makes the text of
_|what he actually said of special interest.) .

Some Canadian papers dis-

. .. The events that took

a serious menace to all gains
of the Hungarian working
class, the peasantry, and the

ganizers of the counter-revolu-
tionary putsch wanted to strike
a blow at socialism, to drench
in blood the people’s power.

These were events undoubi-
edly inspired by all enemies of

in the events the beginning of
the end-of communism.

The imperalist’s hopes for
the defeat of socialism in Hun-
gary had failed. It was not the
ideas of communism that went
bankrupt but only those lead-
ers who forgot the sacred
principles of Marxism-Lenin-
ism, who were not guided by
them. Such armchair leaders
become estranged from the
masses,. began to order the
masses about.

By their wrong actions they
often used the dictatorship of.
the working class not against
the enemies of the working
elass but against their own
people. Promoted to _ leader-
ship, they were not able to use
power, they did not strengthen
the dictatorship of ‘the work-
ing class, the power of the
working people, but began to
direct the fire at their own
people and to strike blows at
the revolutionary forces. This
was the beginning of the defeat
of such leaders.

It is clear that if counter-
revolution did succeed in caus-
ing disturbances in the coun-
try, if only for a short .time,
this was due to a considerabie
extent to the fact that the for-
mer leadership of the Hungar-.
ian Workers party, and espe-
cially Matyas Rakosi, had com-
mitted serious mistakes which
undermined the party’s direct-
ing role and weakened the dic-
tatorship of the proletarist.
Tf the people entrust the
leadership of the country to a
party, this not only does not
relieve its leaders of concern’
for strengthening their ties
with the masses but, on the
contrary, obliges them to be
‘especially sensitive to the re-
quirements of the masses and
constantly to verify by their’
experience the correctness of
the party’s policy...

Hungarian Socialist Workers
party
above all that they boldly took!
to the road of resolutely cors}
recting the mistakes commit+ 1
ted by the old leadership. ~

work of the Communists par-

and its leadership is!

if

Comrades, complex pheno:
ena in public life and in the} ||

ties could have occurred in} }
other socialist countries as| M4
well. Following the Twentieth! —
Congress of the Communist!
Party of the Soviet Union, cer-| |
tain difficulties, something of} Ps
a fever, were experienced b; %
some parties, including 0
own party.

The Communist Party of the;
Soviet Union was the first. toj |
give an example of boldly andi |
sharply denouncing the mis-
takes produced by the cult of,
personality. And it was right,}
even though some people have
said that certain complications,
in the public life of the social-
ist countries stem from the
Twentieth Congress* of our
party, that the question shoul
not have been raised
sharply.

No. Comrades, it had to
done. It was necessary to get
cleansed and to throw off all ©
the accumulated extraneous) _
matter. : 4

I will repeat: all pa }
have gone through this fever,
in various degrees, but our or-
ganism has become even,
stronger afterward...

Stemming from the lessons”
of the counter - revolutionary:
uprising in Hungary are some
important conclusions concern-
ing the class struggle in the
period of socialist construction.
The Twentieth Congress of
our party rightly - criticized
Joseph Stalin’s mistaken prop-
osition that the class struggle =
grows sharper with progress {|
in socialist construction. Bi
criticism of this propositic
certainly does not mean tha’
we deny the inevitability 0:
class struggle in the period
socialist construction,
The entire history of #
building of socialism in the
Soviet Union and the People’:
Democracies has convincingly
confirmed Lenin’s widel
‘known proposition that class ;
struggle does not disappear
under the distatorship of the
proletariat, but merely ~

The historic merit of the

December 18, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

isumes new. forms.