FROM THE DIARY OF A COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY

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FROM THE DIARY OF A
COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY
.by Pavel Kohout
translated from the Czech
by George Thelner
McGraw-Hill, 307 pp., $7.95
Reviewed by Sanche de Gramont
In 1945 a sixteen-year-old Czech school-
boy named Pavel Kohout watched
Russian tanks enter Prague to liberate
it from the Germans. In 1968 Kohout,
now a well-known playwright, saw Rus-
sian tanks once again in the streets of
Prague, this time in a newspaper
photograph. Kohout was vacationing
in Italy, and the tanks were putting
down the govcrnmr_nt of Alexander
Dub6ek, who had attempted to create
"socialism with a human face" in
Czechoslovakia.
Kohout's From the Diary of a Coun-
ter-Revolutionary concerns the inter-
vening two decades of political turmoil
in his country, 'centering around the
events of 1968. He uses the term
- counter-revolutionary in an ironic
sense, for it is the one the Communists
applied to those who opposed the Soviet
invasion. The diary is actually a series
of three alternating journals, distin-
guished in the book by different type
faces. The first follows Kohout in
Prague from 1945 through a twenty-
year struggle as a Communist writer
and intellectual. The second is the
diary of the "Prague spring" of 1968,
when Antonin Novotny, the Stalinist
hard liner, was replaced by Dub&ek as
first secretary of the party, and the ice-
berg formed during twenty years of
subservience to Moscow began to thaw.
The final diary recounts Kohout's Ital.
ian holiday, his arguments with his
mistress, and his decision to return
home. Although the technique of tun'
ping together different diaries can be
dislocating, it admirably expresses the
episodic, fragmented quality of Ko-
hout's life.
The book, however, is much more
than an account of recent events in
Czechoslovakia; it is the complicated
biography of a generation that grew up
questioning.its allegiance to a Soviet
on the radio today." A streetcar con-
ductor tells a German flier that he can
no longer accept German currency.
Several days later Kohout is riding on
the turret of a Russian tank. A year
later Kohout is climbing the statue of
St. Wenceslaus in the center of Prague
to get a better view of the withdrawing
Red Army. In two years-it is 1948-
he is again in the streets, demonstrat-
ing in favor of the Communist.coup
that has ousted the Bene? government
and installed Clement Gottwald. Ko-
hout is a loyal Communist, a party
member whose sympathy for Russia
Communism without the Warsaw Pact
would be -in danger in such countries
as Hungary and Poland where it has
not taken firm root. Kohout replies:
"Are you trying to tell me that sincere
Socialists and friends have been sacri-
ficed for the sake of insincere ones?"
Having lived through that Prague
spring when everything seemed possi-
ble, Kohout returned to a Prague
where nothing seemed possible. His
book, however, shows that there is a
Czech genius for overcoming oppres-
sion and teaches us lesson: Let each
man be his own historian.
survives Stalinism, survives the trea-
son trials of the Fifties, survives sud-
den reversals such as Khrushchev's -
Twentieth Party Congress spccch dc-
nouncing Stalin. When Stalin died in
1953, Kohout wrote: "We had admired
and loved Stalin so much that we never
thought of his death, never thought
him mortal. Now we were sliockcd to
the core. At times it seemed to us the
end of everything." This belief in
Russia as a savior and Stalin as a
father figure was destroyed in one
abrupt moment in August 1968, when
Kohout heard an Italian news vendor
shouting: "Cccoslovacchia a occupala."
History has its onlookcrs'and its pro-
tagonists, and Kohout is necessarily a
protagonist, caught up in the Com-
munist crises of the Fifties and Sixties.
Political events have become inter-
twined with his personal life. He tells
us in the same breath about the two
strands of his destiny, on the one hand
his marriage and divorce and the death
of his parents, on the other his difficul-
ties with censorship and his stunned
disbelief upon hearing the denuncia-
tion of Stalin in 1956.
The story of his three closest school
friends is particularly telling: One dies
on the Prague barricades in 1945; one
becomes a CIA agent and is caught and
sentenced to twelve years in prison;
and the third becomes a state func-
tionary whom Kohout meets, many
years later, in the Czech embassy in
Rome and who attempts to explain
away the Soviet invasion. The real mo-
tive, he says, was a show of strength
to oblige the West to prolong the ex-
istence of NATO. for if NATO crum-
satellite state. Great events are intro-'
duced obliquely, through common-
place incidents. One morning Kohout's
mother wakes him with the news:
"They're speaking nothing but Czech
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7 DEC. 1971
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mow .
Chicago Sun-Times ! AMONG TIIOSE taking part
!were the. late Allen Dulles, first
WASHINGTON - Tile Ce;ttt'a.l1 director of the CIA, and Richard
Intelligence Agency has secret!y~Lisscll former deputy director
a large 'share of credit for plans (clan, .
claimed estine opera-
for the rise of the liberal and ill- tions).
fated Dubcek regime I n During the discussion, one of
Czechospeci fi a in 1353. toe participants, o b v i o u s l y
The specific claim is that Ra- relying upon CIA information,
dio Free Europe and Radio Declared: "A couple of much
stations Liberty in two West CIA Germany stin criticizM public media protects
(cited by name) had proven of
vrere instrumental in prove!?:ing value, as the fall of Novotny in
the ouster of Antonin Novotny, alCzech,slova!e suggested."
pro-Soviet Stalinist, as head o6 Other rlible intelligence
the Czech Communist party., `southe her confirmed that the
Alexander Dubcek real,ced sored rrote cited ha were
Novotny in January, 13 S and'' censored
RL j The sources said
" Rl- I- and
?
(established a major program o r liberation that led to the Soviet
invasion the following Au gust.
the two stations successfully
disparaged Novotny as an anti-
quated St;ainist and played up
EN JtI:;'CIi,,Y,NG th re inv 'the possibility ssibility of reform through
asir;n ,I
Moscow alleged that met;the s t' opian socialism.
of the Dubcek regime were
plotting with Western agents to
ii-,set the Communist sytem in
Czechoslovakia.
But Senate sources, who have
investigated the activities of
RFE and RL, discounted any
parallel to the hungarian uprris-
ing in 1955, when RFE was ac-
cused of encouraging the
insurgents to expect the United
States to intervene militarily
against the Russians.
A close chock of subsequenti
transmissions, One Source said,.
showed that the two stations
have scrupulously avoided any
statements implying that the
United States might come to thel
aid of liberal, anti-Soviet
regimes in Eastern Europe.
THE FATE of REE and RL is
in the hands of a Boodle House
conference committee debating;
holy to shift their op rations
from the CIA to above-board
government control. Emergency,
financing for the stations ends
today but enough CIA funds ale
thought to be on hand to keep
them going until Congress final-
ly males up its mind.
! The CIA's role in the events in
Czechoslovakia came to light in
.a confidential report by the
Council on Foreign Relations
that has been obtained by the
Chicago Sun Times. .
The report contains a digest of
a discussion between severa'
former high-reekin CIA offi
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Ambassador Bush and Huang.operated hand in glove
in denouncing India as the aggressor. Ambassador Huang,
contributed anti-Soviet slander of a virulence that has not
been heard in the United Nations since the heyday of Joe
McCarthy: ,
~r,1~~i The vile denunciation of the Soviet Union as "social
I ?1 03 e r
imperialist, while unoriginal, having its sources in Trot-
With the recognition by India of Bangla Desh as a soy- skkyism, is exceedingly perilous to the peace of the world.
ereign nation, tile liberation struggle in East Pakistan has The Maoists' and anti-Sovietism is paralleled by their
taken a decisive turn. pro-imperialist denunciation of Bangla. Desh as a "so-
In the December 1970 Pakistani elections, the Miami called" nation, "created" by the Soviet Union.
League of East Pakistan won a majority of the seats in the Leaving no bases untouched. the Maoists, careening
national Assembly, 167 of 313. These 167 seats were all but wildly to the Right. reiterated to the Security Council
two of the 169 allotted to East Pakistan in the Assembly.. their support for the counterrevolutionary movement in
.The militarist' Yahya Khan regime refused to accept Czechoslovakia in 19c8. That was White House-CIA policy,
the electoral verdict, banned the scheduled March 1 meet- also. =
,
ing of the Assembly, and launched a military offensive in
NlifON ON
S PHONY NEUl AUTY
which hundreds of thousands of East Pakistan civilians, President Nixon's announcement yesterday of a posi-
men, women and children. were massacred,- and from tion of "absolute neutrality," superficially impartial, is
which some ten million fled into India. deceitful in its essence.
Yahya Khan's savage repression continues today. U.S. policy in the Security Council today is anything
0tK OF NIXON GOVI F;rd,V..e-NT but "neutral" It absolves the militarist Pakistan regime
The U.S. resolution's statement to the Security Coun-:of guilt for the savage repression which began last March.
cil that the conflict between Pakistan and India will "en- It accuses India of being the "major aggressor."
danger the peace," that the U.S. seeks to "secure and The issue is a political settlement in East Pakistan.
maintain the peace in the area," is sickening in its duplic- The right of the people of East Pakistan to-determine their
ity and deceit. own destiny is the crux of such political settlement. They
It was t h-- U.S. which encouraged Yahya Khan's mas- deserve the support' of the American people in their just
sacre; it was the Nixon administration which continued to cause.
send arms to the Yahya Khan regime. defying a ban on
such shipments by the U.S.Congress, even as Yahya Khan
was murdering East Pakistanis. -
That is the situation. disguised as "cease fire." to
which the U.S. resolution would return East Pakistan.
That is what the charge of Soviet "interference in the
internal affairs of Pakistan," by Chinese Ambassador
Huang Hua, intends to cover up.
Of the five permanent members of the Security Coun-
cil only the U.S. and China voted for the U.S."resolution-.
The Soviet Union voted against: Britain and France ab-
stained.
RO?i' CAUSES C CCIN L CT
The.key issue confronting the Security Council is, as
stated in the Soviet resolution presented by Ambassador
Jakov Malik. a "political settlement in East Pakistan."
Such a settlement would "inevitably result in the cessation
of hostilities." as the Soviet Union holds. for the root caus-
es of the present conflict are the "acts of violence of Paki-
stani forces in East Pakistan."
The main opponent. of the Soviet resolution was the
White House. But it let the Chinese delegation carry the
ball. Ambassador Huang cast the necessary veto, while
Ambassador George Bush sat by. in abstention.
Ambassador Huang's veto and his actions during the
debate'were part of an almost unbelievable escalation in
the anti-Soviet campaign of the Maoist leadership of China.
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Prague T ial
PRAGUE - A criminal-
court trial of 19 Czechoslovak
'students charged with "Trot-
skyite, Maoist and Zionist
activities financed by the
CIA" resumed, Czech sources
said.
The trial, Which began
Mol,day, was postponed
after a German woman de
fendant complained that she
had not received a copy of
the charges in her` native
language.
Defense attorneys expect
the trial to continue at least
two weeks. The 15 men and
four women on trial face
possible sentences of tap to
five years in prison if, con-
victed.
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SHREVEPORT, LA.
TIMES
M - 91,183
S - 115,298
tzec4hos1~vakia: Pu'rg'e Grinds On
The removal of Alexander
Dubcek from his ceremonial and
powerless ambassadorial position
got the headlines, but the hard fact
is that the purge of Communist
"moderates" i n Czechoslovakia
continues to run deep and strong.
As so often happens in a
totalitarian society, those who did
the brutal purging are now them-
selves being purged. These are the
"commissions" which rule on the
"reliability" of Red party mem-
bers.
Hard-liners in that unhappy
land declare now that the commis-
sioners were not tough enough-
that "notorious hotbeds of reform"
still exist - and so the purgers are
also getting the axe.
Just how deep has the purge
cut? Experts on East European
affairs estimate that the Czech
Communist party, which claimed
close to 1.7 million members be-
fore the Russian invasion, will soon
be down to 500,000 members.
It appears that the last creative
and intellectual groups, who made
Czechoslovakia the cultural capital
of Eastern Europe two years ago,
will be wiped out in this latest
tightening-up.
The regime has already de-
clared unions of journalists and
other media institutions defunct.
Another purge of the Czech Acade-
my of Sciences is beginning. And
the historical institute is -under
fire.
And so the long night of
Communist vengeance in Czecho-
slovakia grows darker still.
Dubcek on Trial?
Alexander Dubcek, the man
who wanted to put a "human face"
on communism in Czechoslovakia,'
has been made to suffer - suffer
so much - for what his Red'
cohorts consider the sin of "devia-
tion."
Caught in the drip-drip Red !
torture system that is far more
painful than physical abuse, for-
mer Party Chief Dubcek has been
forced to dismantle the very re-
forms he instituted in the "Prague
Spring" of 1968.
Later Dubcek was forced to !
watch as his successor publicly and,!
officially thanked the Kremlin for
sending in troops and tanks to
occupy Czechoslovakia. Finally he
was shuttled off to an ambassador-
ship in Turkey.
But the Russians and the Czech
Red hard-liners evidently feel that
Dubcek's punishment is not yet
complete. For he has now been
removed as ambassador and ex-
pelled from the Czech Communist
party - made an "unperson" in
the Communist world.
At last report, Dubcek was said
to be under heavy police guard in
Prague's Sanops Clinic, supposedly
undergoing "treatment" for "se-
vere nervous depression."
But there is reason to believe
even this isn't the end of the ordeal
for Dubcek. There is talk 'of a
Communist "show trial" for the
fallen leader.
If this-sort of thing develops,
we can look for Dubcek and his key
associates to be put on "trial"
where they will "confess" to being /
tools of the American CIA and /
thank the "court `foT -82d'Ting
their execution as traitors.
No, the Reds probably are not
through with Dubcek -- or Czecho-
slovakia - yet.
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Henry Taylor / Orders from Prague?;
ARE part of the campus dis- mented the IUS's control of Rudolf Dutschke,
d
on
orders a Red plot? You be the ("Red Rudi") when Dutschke was arreste
judge.. it i1, 1968, during riots in nearly all the'
The CIA and FBI know that est German universities.
the center for planning stu-
t disorders is in Prague, I
d
en
within, the shadow of the Ru IN France the IUS thrust is supervised by
zyne airport. There the im-
Daniel Cohn-Bandit ("before you can build you;
mense International Union of .
Students (IUS), financed and must destroy"), who is not even French. He's..
brain-trusted by MOSCOW, is German. The success, typified by the March 3
orting university an a r- Nanterre campus mayhem which saw Dean,
u
pp
s
chists here and thruout the free world. Paul Ricouer kidnaped and 125 policemen in-l
into "country desks." Each section supervises
:a country. Cunningly, each tailors the "issues" University faculty members are ..brutalized!
ed almost daily.
d kidna
p
for each country. Naturally, the IUS drums on an
the,Vietnam issue here and "Peace! Peace! I had lunch in New York not long ago with'i
Peace!" to further it Red victory in southeast Italian Foreign. Minister Aldo Moro. Italy, at-
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ranee
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A Pole, Vied Konarski, a man with a bite ?
like a saber-tooth tiger, supervises the British tormlaw. Mr. Moro, himself a professor, spun-i .
thrust. The IUS vehicle there is the militant Bored it. "But what can we do?" he asked. "Ind
Radical Student Alliance in London. Two sub- my country, as in France, your country and
;divisions are supervised by Jean Bougareau, a thruout the free world, the Reds' technique is1
Frenchman, and Martin Abein, who is Dutch. always to up their demands with every conces-I
? In Eire the IUS thrust, locally called The lion they gain."
International Movement. is based at Trinity Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato spoke Simi-
College, Dublin. The IUS supervisor is Hardial lariy on his visit here. He said that last year
Sinh Gains, a naturalized Canadian born in student arrests in campus disorders exceeded
India. 14,000 (ours exceeded 3,600) and that the IUS.
to a
ti
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on
uca
thrust has reduced Japanese e
shambles. The IUS vehicle there is the im-
' A GAINS sidekick is Ralph Schoenman. 34, mense Zengakuren student organization along
'the student shepherd of the Bertrand Russell with five other factions.
Peace Foundation - the man who concocted ? The IUS also runs terrorist training centers
,for African students. The CIA has uncovered
the mock trial of President Johnson In Stock- - them.in Budapest and Warsaw and In Leipzig,
holm in protest against Vietnam. Iron-fisted Bernau and Bautzen, East Germany. These.
Schoenman served a "martyr"'. 'stretch ins have trained and sent back ' otoheir;aAfricann,
a
h
M o n t 1 o y rrison, D"oll"- Brill,,. ?
in the past six months.
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Schoen man and Scotland yard caught him. To There's no great mystery in what is happen-,
ithe dismay of the, CIA and. FBIF Schoenman
, ,. .. , . Jjl.ling?here. Our enemies are; promoting;aioivil.l
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In nations where the `press has no-The arficle. -iossed'off 1the invasion "of
i ,freedom' except to print what the govern- Czechoslovakia and the "W a aiotts rental
nient directs, it is enlightening to take :a g ry s4
s sions'-in East Berlin. and 7-iuti s nc
f national temperature by,the,? degree of essary to repel "C organized rebelIiortf
criticism in-a controlled publication.
? Nor did it talk, about the BRI ZHNEt ?as
The. Soviet.Government alternately has been hot or cool ?vis-a-vis, the United tempt to form- a Kremlin-sponsored co
States in, its super power foreign policy. lective security system in Asia, which fell
This was reflected early this month by flat because small Asian nations' saw
the Soviet magazine, Life Abroad, when through it as an attempt to gain allies.fq
It built editorial fires in a harsh criti. encircle Communist China.
cism of President Nrxox's foreign policy All foreign policy is self-serving. 0th
}'',blueprint. and thereby led our.- own offi- erwise, why should great nations expand
4':?cials to take ` a closer look at Soviet for. effort,' money and often life in its PIKF;- feign policy in; -Asia- and in the. Middle suit? But at least President NIXON has
, East, - where the action, is. put his cards on the ' table,'so to. speak
The ~Life. Abroad" editorialist heavy He made as frank,.open and consideratq
iandedly - described the ' NIXON policy statement of -American goals abroad,
statement,-as "'astounding in itse bosi- goals which Ser `"Antis can Wrests and
1ty, replete with empty; phrases; boastful the int teat ~ of
affirmations h# Artie ican policy-.; and,' ig e,ver, has-6ane'.i-off' ; let's of e r
'noran$ or .:deliberately distorted titter to call `if ignor nt. ail ~li,tortt~d. sl,stt~,'ls
antes o n,' the policy of adversaries "- Spe hbtiu "mach Elie. truti hsrt.-: iif ~osryu
cifically, the article lashed otit at s`dex, Distortion 'Wild mtsTttorezet~;stQ a;
liberate -?disregardof thesolidarit;y'of??the-
-Socialist countries, expressed In :repell
ing American aggression 3u Vietnam, aid-
,,r, to the Arab countries-' victims "bf.the"'
Zionist rulers of Israel, the .hirelings,:,of
American imperialism."
All of which sounds- like 'the compli-,
ments exchanged'between.those. giants bf,
-"Socialism and .'solidarity=the Soviet
~ti- Union and Red China., Strangely, no ? men-
tion was made, of the'_border 'struggle,
and the constant threats of .massive at-
tack passing betweenldcW*, Iit-d'?
;.not the -way' to peace ' h' st z rt li3
:that in the Soviet ntegs-, fYto.indictes" th`ai
the Kremlin does nut` wait 'case. `It' iii
o n 'a'road to'expanslon;. in the ?efiddlet a:
and in Asia. It hides its aims:bhehincl cri
cism of our 'owir without, admittin; `ItA
nefarious objectives;. '; So. long a3=it. dons
mericans an4
,
other free people should, ctitstaiitiy; f
the : Irislir~taan, `; ~ot~i t _P1dit ~Pd~t .vbivti
that eternal;:vi lea+ ~iit thtr' pica' '' i
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24 )Nrek 1970
2nd RUSSIAN'S A C TI VI TIES j"
UNDER. ATTACK BY MPs
By PETCR WORTHINGTON ` He is accused by the Estonians of "spread-
Telegram Staff Reportergendo'es'ths ap~
Two Soviet diplomats; thought to''?j ... pressure tactics and implied threats to cause
dissension and fear among members of our 'f
,.be KGB officers, are suspected of community."
F "dabbling in espionage in Canada. The council Is asking the Government to rj
The Estonian Central Council in" . ?ePel him from Canada. The letter is signed by,
Canada is askin External Affairs president ihnac Hehisoo, end five savior ;.1
g members.
Minister Mitchell Sharp to expel in Ottawa, Kaluzhny has been establishing con-
one of them. tacts among politicians and key civil servants.
Federal Members of Parliament have com- He's had dealings with more than 20 MPs, and
plained to the RCMP about-the "attentions of the often drops to unannounced on them.
other, who is pushing bird to establish social ' Then is no suggestion of any impropriety on the
contacts with MPs. part of any Canadian. Parliamentarians are aware
f of the case of British Labor MP William Owen, who .1
The two diplomats are believed, to be was apparently sucked into espionage through the
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lieutenant colonels in the KGB, the Soviet as? initially innocent social attentions of a
pionage service. They are First Secretary, Vladl. mat who turned out to be an Intelligence officer. Mr.
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mar Kalushny and
Mikhail Murnikov. Murnikov'' I V Wen
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STANDARD-SPEAKER
E-22,319
MAR 10 1970
Super. Power Foreign Policy
1' Harsh Soviet criticism of Presider t.Ntx-a necessary to repel "CI~rganized rebel-
on' oseig policy _bluepxin# prompted a lion." Nor did it talk a ou the Brezhnev
close look at Soviet foreign policy, especial- attempt to form a Kremlin-sponsored col-,
ly in Asia and the Middle East, "where the lective security system in Asia, which fell
flat because small Asian nations saw ,
current action is." through it as an attempt to gain allies to a
A Soviet magazine, "Life Abroad", de- encircle Communist China.
scribed the Nixon policy statement as "as= All foreign policy is self-ser.ving. Other-
tounding in its verbosity, replete with, wise, why should great nations expend ef-
empty phrases, boastful affirmations of fort, money and often life in its pursuit?
Amer' ]' d '
sc
an po acy an ignorant or deliberate- But at least President Nixon put his cards
ly distorted utterances on the policy of ad- on the table, so to'speak. He made as frank,
versaries
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th
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p
ca
y,
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c
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ashed
out at "deliberate disregard of the solidar-
ity of the Socialist countries, expressed in
repelling American aggression in Vietnam,
aid to the Arab countries - victims of the
Zionist rulers of Israel, the hirelings of
American imperialism."
The "solidarity of Socialist countries"
,did not mention the border struggle of the
two Communist giants - the Soviet Union
and mainland China. It tossed off the in-
.
s a
ms
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vasion of Czechoslovakia and previous re-' cism of our own without admitting its'ne.
vpulsions of East Berlin and Hungary as fariou
b
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s o
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tives.
open and considerate statement of Ameri-
can goals abroad - goals that serve Ameri-
can interests and the interests of peace-
,as any nation has ever done. For a Soviet
spokesman to call it ignorant and distorted
shows how much the truth hurt.
Distortion .and misrepresentation are not
the way to peace., This retort indicates '
clearly the Soviet does not want peace. It is
on a road to expansion, in the idd
and n Asia
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