That "Bourgeois Woman"

The Sino-Soviet split is getting wider.

Russia's retreat in Cuba and Red China's attack in India are dividing partisans of Moscow and Peking everywhere. A minority faction of "Chinese" and Stalinist sympathizers in the Belgian Communist Party supported the "rectitude of Castro's cause" and condemned the "imperialist aggression of Nehru." On the other hand, Italian Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti, once a Stalinist but now a loyal Khru-shchevite, pointedly declined to take sides between India and China. Said he: "We don't know where the truth lies."

In Bulgaria, which had just wiped out a beachhead of eight Peking supporters, 20 new victims were purged, including Foreign Minister Karlo Lukanov. Almost one-third of the old Central Committee membership has now been swept away.

The noise of battle was shrillest in Peking itself, and the Chinese mood was not improved by a new $15 million Russian contract with New Delhi for oil-drilling equipment, or Moscow's promise to deliver MIG fighters to embattled India. In an outburst at "modern revisionism." meaning the Khrushchev line, Peking's People's Daily vilified the Kremlin's Cuban policy as "sinister and venomous, disgraceful." and seeking "to befuddle the Cuban people and mentally disarm them." The paper urged a "headon" confrontation with the U.S. instead of a "barter" of Communist principles. Next day. Red Flag, official organ of the Chinese Central Committee, taunted Khrushchev with the accusation that "the modern revisionists are scared stiff of the 'policy of strength' of U.S. imperialism."

In private. Chinese Reds were even rougher. Communist editors in Hong Kong last week sought out Western newsmen for the first time in years specifically to denounce Khrushchev by name. They revived earlier charges that he had tried to overthrow the Peking regime by destroying blueprints for Chinese economic projects, and complained that Stalin's only mistake was "not killing Khrushchev in the purges." Khrushchev, went the line, is "an amateur Marxist who is betraying the cause with his philosophy of abundance." and is "as jealous of China's growing strength as only a bourgeois woman could be."

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