(SANITIZED)WORLD COMMUNIST AFFAIRS(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03061A000400010008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 10, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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' ianif icant Dates 1
[ASTERISK denotes ANNIVERSARIES. All others are CURRENT EVENTS].
7 Eighth General Conference, World Fellowship of Buddhists. 7-II November
at Chiengmai, Thailand,
12 International Conf. on War-Danger and Disarmament. Sponsored by All India
Peace Council, Indian Assoc. for Afro-Asian Solidarity, and World Peace
Council (communist). 12-19 Nov in New Delhi.
14~ CUnequal) Treaty of Peking cedes Chinese "Great Northeast" to Russia. 1860.
15~ Bolsheviks proclaim "Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia"
~ affirming principle of self-determination of national minorities. 1917.
DEC
I~ Sergey Kirov, Communist leader, assassinated, Leningrad. 1934. [Note
that show trials of the "19" (15-16 Jan 1935) and the "16" (19-24 Aug
1936) took place roughly 17 years after communist seizure of power: Red
Chinese purges are in same period of CCP rule.]
2* U.S. achieves first controlled nuclear reaction, Univ. of Chicago. 1942.
6 General Council of World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU-communist), Sofia,
6-9 Dec.
12~ Milovan D~ilas sentenced to prison (arrested 19 Nov). 1956. TENTH ANNI-
VERSARY.
14~ USSR expelled from League of Nations for unprovoked aggression against
Poland and Finland. 1939.
14 Budapest, World Trade Union Conference to Promote Foreign Trade and Oppose
Monopolistic Discrimination against Underdeveloped Countries. Sponsored
by WFTU CCommunist) 14-17 Dec.
19~ Vietminh attack on French installations at Haiphong begins 7 I/2 year war.
1946. TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY. --
20~ Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution (CHEKA) established
in USSR, forerunner of GPU, OGPU, NKVD, MGB, and KGB. 1917.
21~ Joseph V. Stalin born. 1879.
26~ Mao Tse-tung born. 1893.
JAN
2* Fidel Castro assumes power following Batista's flight. 1959.
8* Charles de Gaulle inaugurated first president of French Fifth Republic.
1959.
15 Conference of Solidarity with Workers of Aden, sponsored by ICATU/WFTU,
15-18 January. Approximately 20 countries participating,
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SEGRET
10 October 1966
Briefly Noted
Yugoslav Yugoslav Press Criti-
Party cites Special Privileges
Officials for Officials
AZar~med
There has been a new
and surprising tone of independence
in the Yugoslav press recently.
It has been particularly noticeable
in articles criticizing the extra-~
ordinary privileges (seaside villas,
hunting preserves, access to for-
eign exchange) granted certain
Party, military and civil officials..
These articles have appeared in
several of the best known weeklies,
including Mladost, (People's Youth),
Illustrovana Politika, and Nin.
The criticism has caused alarm in
the Party, and provoked several
angry replies by Party officials..
President Tito is expected to com-
ment soon, probably at the next
Central Committee meeting. (For
more details, see New-York Times
of 29 September, in Press Comment
of 29 September.)
An Asian President Marcos'
Discusses Speech to the U.S.
the U. S. Congress
Role in
.Asia The September visit of
President Ferdinand
Marcos of the Philippines to the
U.S. received substantial favor-
able publicity from U.S. journal
fists and from newsmen traveling
with the Presidential party. Mar-
cos' speeches to the Press Club,
Congress and the UN were all lib-
erally sprinkled with his well-
known pro-Americanism, and critics
have jabbed at Marcos for his for-
ei~p policy, which they character-
ize ~s "deep involvement with Ameri-
ca's causes." A certain amount of
unfriendly innuendo has accompanied
news coverage of the U.S.-Philippines
aid agreement reached while Marcos
was in the U.S.
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a~~n~i
Social Demo- "New .Image" Pays Off
crate Suffer for Swedish Communists
Setbaek
The Swedish Communist
Party (S1Cp) has determinedly culti-
vated an aura of "respect~b:ility''"
under its new.C.hairman G.H. Hermans-
son. An option has even been given
to local paxt~'clistricts to drop
the name'"Communist" from their
title:` Hermansson-has criticized
both Moscow-and Peking and has ;
avoided taking sides in the Sino-
Soviet polemic. He has assiduously
promoted the idea of .a united front
with the Social Democratic Party
(SA>?) -- a proposition which has
fallen on sympathetic ears among
the younger Social Democrats.
Local elections were held
throughout Sweden on 18 September
1966 which resulted in again for
Communists`: their -vote rose ;from
4.2?'o in the local elections of 1962
to 6.6% this year. During the same
period the Social Democrats fell
from 51% to 42.8%. Obviously the
SAP lost votes on its-left to the
Communists and on-its right to:the
center. The other three leading
parties boosted their combined per-
centage from 45 to 48.8.
The natural result has been
increased emphasis by the Communists
on a united front., especially since
the SAP, as the governmental party,
must rely on the Communists for sup-
port on various domestic issues.
Unhappily, the success the SKP has
achieved in this election, and what-
ever future gains may accrue to it
as a result, are likely to spur
other Communist parties in Scandi-
navia and elsewhere to press for
united fronts. Additionally, Com-
munist youth, student, and intel-
lectual groups will attempt to make
greater common cause with their non-
communist counterpart organizations.
More on The Diary of a Nun
Chinese Imprisioned in Communist
Reverence China
for the
Aged The tragic story of the
eight nuns expelled from
China at the height of the Red Guards' 50X1-HU M
revolutionar mania
has
been given worldwide publicity but
seldom with as telling effect as in
the attached translation of an arti-
cle from the 1 September 1966 issue
of Il Messaggero by Pietro Trivelli.
Trivelli tells the story of the nuns'
expulsion only as background fxo.a
review of Chinese persecution of
misr,~ionary groups and effectively-
weaves into his story excerpts from
the prison diary of a nun who was
incarcerated for nine months in a
Chinese Communist prison v.rider un-
speakable conditions.
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