killed in November near Solo. ee oe Co we A. ; Before his death,! Aidit reportedly: + wrote two letters: ‘to. Sukarno appealing © to: the president to stop the. Slaughter -of Con. munists. ; is = . Sukarno is said to have replied that he would do everything ‘possible, adding: "T need time and I must first of al... change the oblate of mind of the heads of the army." - are a “- - Mhe same letter ‘received by the Guardian said that Nyoto, the second vice-president of the Communist party, had been killed. Imprisoned in Djakarta, he was interrogated for two days. After finally being returned to his cell, he- ‘never reappeared. — on, - Under Aidit's leadership, the: ‘Communist party of. Indonesia ,-- one ‘of thé largest in the world ---followed the fatal policy of ‘relying on Sukarno, the representative of the "nationalist bourgeoisie," instead of pursuing an independent course.
Aidit boasted on more than one occasiun of the cleverness
of his policy and jeered at those who called it revisionist. He was bolstered in this not only by Moscow but by Peking, the Mao leadership having its own reasons. fo1 wanting tO cover up his opportunism. =. ota Tos, . oy het a
Aidit's policies paved the way for one of the greatest disasters .ever- experienced by a Communist party... And Aidit himself seems to have been caught so unawares by. She. consequences of... his course, that he could not make good his own escape. In this he was less fortunate than the Communist party:-leaders in Spain in the thirties wha helped open the road for Franco's victory. ...
FAMINE IN INDIA
A government spokesman in New Delhi revealed January 21 that .12,000,000 persons in India are living "in great distress" because. of hunger. . The government spokesman added that they are-.. "threatened" with famine. -In