The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 October 1965 — Page 7
Foreign News Commentary
By Jay Axelhank MOSCOW UPI — When Nikita S. Khrushchev fell almost a year ago some diplomats here predicted the passing of Peking's enemy No. 1 would allow Russia and China to moderate their ideological feud. Instead the Oct. 15 anniversary approaches with Sino-Sov-iet relations not only unimproved but possibly worse than under Khrushchev. In fact, two undeclared wars in Asia—Viet Nam and Kashmir—may have made it vir-
tually impossible the two Com- ; munist giants will ever patch up their differences, diplomatic observers say. The Kremlin's openly expressed moral support for India in the Sino-Indian border 1 conflict so inmuriated the Chinese that they charged the Soviet “revisionist clique” was in ; leakue with Western “imperiaI lists.’ ’ Not only has the Viet Nam conflict failed to make the feuding comrades close ranks | against a common “imperia-
list” foe, but this situation, to, has driven a wedge between them. China has accused the Rus- ! sians of being “accomplices” ; of the Amreicans in Viet Nam ; and there have been widespread j reports circulating in Moscow 1 that Peking has hamstrung the i flow of Soviet aid to No*-th Viet Nam across Chinese territory. The new men in the Kremlin | appear to be much cooler un- ; der Chinese verbal fire than j Khrushchev. They have vir- ! tually turned the other cheek, al- ! most never attacking China by 1 name— and when doing so, only indirectly with calls for “in'temational Communist unity.”
| In July 31, the Chinese took the gloves off. The “Peoples Daily” accused the Soviet Union of a policy of “capitulation, betrayal and split” by preaching peaceful coexistence. The newspaper deferred to the new Kremlin leaders as “Khrushchev revisionists.” But thus far, unlike Khrushchev, the BrezhnevKosygin leadership appears reluctant to force a showdown. They backed away from such a confrontation at the March international Communist parley attended by 19 nations. Diplomatic observers feel that the Russians—the “fat” Communists, compared to the ChiInese—have everything to do
lose in a fight to the bitter end with lean and hungry Peking. The Chinese, these observers say, are boxed In both by the Kremlin and resolute American action in Souheast Asia. Thus like a man who becomes recki less in the face of overwhelm- | ing odds, the observers say Chij na might feel it has something J to gain by forcing a formal I split—if only to get away from the frustrating status quo. A Moscow-Peking split might have repercussions in East Europe, where the Kremlin is already feeling the effects of Romania’s loosening of the strings to Moscow.
Thus the betting here is that, the Russians will continue to turn the other cheek and try to j resist slapping back tit for tat. After all it takes two to make :
a fight.
State Visited By Jack Frost By United Prejj Internationa! Frost paid its second visit to Indiana in 24 hours today and J s u b-f r e e z i n g temperatures j spread across the northlands for | the frist time this season. The mercury slipped to an icy 28 at Fort Wayne, 30 at South
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Bend and 31 at Lafayette, and a record-shattering loy of 34 at Indianapolis was the coldest reading there since last April 3. The old record for the date in the Hoosier capital was 36, es-
tablished in 1950.
Weatherman said frost in the Indianapolis area was “a little heavier and more general than yesterday but still light frost.” Light it may have been, but it coated rooftops, grass and auto windshields and brought “see your breath” weather over the upper two-thirds of the state. Highs Monday ranged from
j 51 at South Bend and 52 at : Fort Wayne to 65 at Evansville. | Evansville’s overnight low wai 39. A slight warmup was expected today, stretching through Thursday. High winds today will range from the 50s to to the 60s, lows tonight from the upper 30s to the mid 40s, and highs Wednesday from the mid to upper 60s. Sunny skies today will be fallawed by partly cloudy Wednesday and Thursday. No sign of rain was seen in the forecasts for the next three daya.
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