DOCTOR TOGLIATTI TO THE RESCUE
ROME ~- Nuova Generazione, organ of the Italian Communi st Youth, ‘pecame widely kmown for its audacious criticisms, especially immediately following the Twenty-first Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. However, the issue which appeared during the first week of October published the following in relation to the commemoration of the victory of the Chinese Revolution: . "On the occasion of the anniversary of the great event which marked the end of the feudal subjugation and.imperialist exploitation of 600 mil- ‘lion people, despite the profound differences which separate us from the Chinese comrades, we, the Young Italian Communists, wish them the greatest success, certain that the current difficulties in the international workers movement cen be overcome, not by a dogmatic appeal to principles and to unity, but through a concrete revolutionary confrontation and a free discussion among all the CP's.
In face of such a timorous and orthodox passage, readers are likely to conclude that the spirit of the Italian “Young Turks‘ has been broken. Unfortunately the readers of Nuova Generazione have no way of knowing that a different text was prepared and even printed and that it was not until ‘after intervention from above that the copies already printed were withdrawn, and a new text prepared and printed.
The censured text was as follows:
"The People's Republic of China has celebrated the fourteenth .anniversary of its glorious Revolution. . During the festivities at Peking, Comrade Chou En-lai declared. that he was convinced that the present ideological differences among the socialist countries will finally be resolved on the basis of Marxism-Leninism, and in addition he expressed support for a policy concerned with faithfulness to principles, to the elimination of differences, the strengthening of unity and the struggle of all combined against the common enemy. The Italian Communist Youth wish the Chinese comrades more and more success on the road to construo~ ting socialism."
It must be admitted that it was a slick job of doctoring and that Togliatti, who considers himself a consistent “liberalizer," is not above using shady methods to demonstrate to the public that his party is unanimously behind a line one hundred per cent hostile to the Chinese.
~GOOD WORD FOR