(SANITIZED)WORLD COMMUNIST AFFAIRS(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03061A000400010032-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: July 5, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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Significant Dates /
AUG
14 Atlantic Charter signed by US and UK. 1941. Twenty-fifth anniversar. [15
anti-Axis nations including USSR endorse 24 Sept 1941.
15-30 Moscow. 3rd International Student Summer School. (IUS-sponsored.) Sub-
ject: "Students and Social Progress."
16 USSR and Poland agree on new border approximating the Curzon Line:,. Poland
loses much of her eastern territories. 1945.
17 Alliance for Progress Charter signed by US and 19 Latin American countries
(all except Cuba), Punta del Este. 1961. Fifth anniversary.
19-29 International Student Conference meeting in Nairobi (non-communist).
20 US and Soviet Govts conclude Riga Agreement for Famine Relief,: US undertakes
to relieve effects of war, drought and communists' agricultural policies.
1921. Forty-fifth anniversary.
20 Leon Trotsky fatally assaulted at home near Mexico City by communist assas-
sin. 1940. [See also 23 Oct 1926 -- expulsion from Politburo by Stalin
1926 (40 years)],.
23 USSR and-Hitler Germany conclude Non-Aggression Treaty. 1939. [Their
"Friendship and Boundary Treaty" a month later, 23 Sept., carries secret
protocols partitioning Poland and rearranging Baltic nations.]
26-31 Leningrad. World Council of Churches (Commission on Faith and Order.)
Working Party, Annual Meeting.
SEPT
7 Khrushchev elevated by CC to First Secretary CPSU. 1953.
8 Peace treaty with Japan signed by 48 nations in San Francisco but USSR,
Czechoslovakia and Poland refuse to sign. 1951. Fifteenth anniversary.
8 Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed for collective defense by
US, Great Britain, France, Australia, N.Z., Philippines, Pakistan and
Thailand. 1954.
9 Chicom troops enter Lhasa, capital of Tibet. 1951. Fifteenth Anniversary.
9 Dalai Lama appeals UN help restore independence of Tibet. 1959.
13 International Memorial Day for Victims of Fascism; week of International
Struggle against Fascism and War 19-29 Sept. (International Federation of
Resistance Movements -- communist).
14 UN GA calls for USSR "to desist from repressive measures" in Hungary. 1957.
-- WIDF sponsored conference in Nepal on Children, for Afghanistan, Nepal,
India and Pakistan (Communist).
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NEW CHICOM PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES IN ITALY. A new monthly periodical
titled Orientamenti (Guidelines) is.being published by the Edizioni Oriente
of Milan, a Chicom propaganda organization. The first issue is dated May
1966. The new publication describes itself as the periodical of the Asso-
ciazione Amici delle Edizioni Oriente and notes that its task will be to in-
form the "Friends" of the cultural and editorial initiatives of the publish-
ing house. In its lead article Orientamenti gives highlights of past activi-
ties noting that in April the publishing house completed three years of
activity which saw the publication of 35 pamphlets and 12 books including
works of Mao Tse Tung and Marxist-Leninist tracts. Mention is also made of
the new quarterly Vento-dell Est (East Wind) which commenced publication in
December 1965. The article claims that Edizioni Oriente by now has "thou-
sands of readers" and supporters throughout the country, even in the most
isolated and far-off localities. There exist "almost a hundred groups and
circles (of supporters) who are carrying out propaganda and dissemination
activities." [unclassified]
FCP USES THOREZ NAME FOR DRAWING POWER. Under-auspices of the Maurice
Thorez Institute, the French Communist Party-has commenced publication of a
new political science journal called Cahiers de 1'lnstitut Maurice-Thorez.
The first issue devotes attention to the early trade union movement and
aims at an audience of intellectuals with articles of scholarly analysis,
reprints of historical source material, and memoirs of militant participants.
The initial emphasis appears to be on working class solidarity irrespective
of political party. The Communist daily newspaper, L'Humanite has called
for the journal's wide distribution. [Unclassified]
NEW CZECH YOUTH MAGAZINE. The State publishing House for Children's
Literature, Prague, has begun publishing a new literary magazine for youth
called Raketa (Rocket). Although the first issue appeared to be relatively
apolitical, and the magazine does not seem to be connected with the Czecho-
slovak Union of Youth, one of the four principal editors listed on the
masthead is Dr. Vladimir Svoboda, who has long been active in the Czecho-
slovak Union of Youth and once was a candidate for its Central Committee.
(Unclassified.)
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