European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday August 5 world communist unify where has it gone by William l. Ryan new York a the russian inquisition of Czechoslovakia s leaders has Deal another heavy blow to Moscow s elusive dream of world communist Unity. While the russians May Befar from finished with their offensive against Liberali action i Czechoslovakia he confrontation of czechoslovak and soviet leaders has enormous implications for the future of communism and for the soviet goal of socialist Unity of in the half Century since the communist International was founded. Soviet leaders have been laboriously constructing the framework of a world Mono Lith that would be theirs to command. Appearance of unit was possible two decades ago. After russian arms installed communist regimes in East Europe in the Wake of world War ii. Those regimes literally owed their lives to Stalin. Now there Are 14 communist ruled nations with widely diverse internal conditions. Mos cow which accuses the United states of trying to be the world policeman is having trouble policing its own world. It insists that All parties follow a Gen eral essentially this Means obedience to the soviet in foreign military economic and political policies. The general line failed to fit Czechoslovakia s needs As it failed to fit Yugoslavia s in 1948, China s in the late 1950s,Romania s since 1960, or Cuba s for the past half dozen years. By trying to thrust the line Down czechoslovak throats Moscow put itself in a position where anything it did might be wrong. To crush the Prague re forms by Force would contribute even More to communist Dis Unity. To permit czechoslovak liberalization to go unchecked would risk contagion in communist ruled nations including the soviet Union itself. Czechoslovakia whose entire population barely exceeds the membership of the soviet com stars and stripes w columns and or Mist party defied the neigh Boring giant. For Moscow the Prague regime was outrageously revisionist. It challenged such sacrosanct doctrines As total party monopoly Over politics and Economy and the Leninist principle that the party must rigidly control All information Media. But Lenin revised Marx. Sta Lin revised Lenin Khrushchev revised Stalin. The present so Viet leaders revised Khrushchev. Did Moscow also havea monopoly on the right to be revisionist by what right asked the yugoslavs did the russians impose on others a recipe of inter Nal life proclaim that the Only prototype was the soviet Proto Type and forbid deviations from the example the yugoslav newspaper Politika recalling a Distant ugly dream of Kremlin interdiction in 1948, commented recently we Are witnessing the old tragedy of reasoning of some leaders in the socialist coun tries that every idea every unorthodox opinion is declared the product of some alien and hos tile the forthcoming world meeting in november the third such attempt to establish Unity promises less Success than its predecessors. China already has been readout of the movement by soviet propaganda along with China Little european ally Albania and Many a splinter part around the world. Cuba while it depends economically and militarily on mos cow is cold to soviet political leadership. North Vietnam and North Korea Are on the Fence unwilling to slight either China or Russia. Romania is unlikely to attend. Yugoslavia will stay away. The italian party tending to Ward Independence has big reservations about such a meet ing As have Many communists in the West. The Large japanese party probably will Boycott the meeting. The trouble with the communist movement seems to be that Western parties Are too european for Russia or the asians the soviet party is too Oriental Pill Pioneer welcomes Pope Paul s decision Philadelphia up Rock a leading roman Catholic gynaecologist and co Developer of the first birth control Pill said saturday he welcomed Pope Paul i s controversial encyclical barring artificial Means of birth control for catholics because it would make parents consult their consciences on the question. Rock noted that the Pill Eno yid originally was designed to improve Fertility and Only late was it found to suppress ovulation. Since then also it has Bee used to standardize a woman s Cycle to permit practice of the rhythm method of birth control. The Church has t completely ruled out use of the Pill at All Rock said. The Church has ruled out use of the Pill for direct interference with the nor Mal procreative process. I think the Pope very appropriately emphasized the responsibility of parents to exercise Good parenthood and i m also glad that he brought out the fac that they must consult their consciences Rock said. Rock added that like the lat Pope Pius Xii Pope Paul looked to science to provide a secure method of birth control based on natural rhythms. The Church knows As Wellus anybody else knows that Sci ence will solve Man s problem so he called on science to keep at it Rock said predicting that a Pill eventually would be developed to Merit Church approval. Rock 78, clinical professor of gynaecology emeritus at Harvard University and director of t h e for Europe and not Oriental enough for China. Gradually such terms As proletarian internationalism and socialist Unity of action have become meaningless so has the phrase " movement " n does t seem us and it berthing. Such Lead dented former vice president Richard Nixon Dis plays a serious Mien As latest Public opinion polls East an ominous hint that his predicted first ballot Victory in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination May encounter trouble at this week s Miami Beach gop conclave. Associated press photo despite Lull in combat i a. Wary of red intent Rock reproductive clinic i Boston discussed the encyclical in a Telephone interview while vacationing in new Hamp Shire following a visit to Phila Delphia. Encyclical deplored by nah Lii new York up prof. William v. D Antonio head of a National organization of Catho Lic scholars sunday denounced Pope Paul s encyclical on birth control As another in this year s list of unbelievable d Antonio who is also chair Man of notre Dame University s sociology department called upon catholics to ignore the Pope s reaffirmation of traditional birth control policy in favor of Freedom of conscience in family he urged governments to help make this Freedom a real one for millions i couples seeking d Antonio s statement re leased in new York was issued in his capacity As chairman of the Catholic committee on population and government pol icy and purported to endorse the growing group of . Theologians who so courageously oppose this myopic reaffirm lion of Pope Paul s the Pope s birth control encyclical is but a Vother in this year s list of unbelievable events d Antonio said. It cannot be forced upon by Spencer Davis associated press writer . Authorities appear deeply sceptical of reports that North Vietnam May be shifting from fight and negotiate strategy to restraint on the Battlefield in or Der to gain a total halt of . Bombing in the North. State department officials while refusing a direct com ment referred saturday to statements by president John son and Secretary of state Dean Rusk last week. President Johnson on wednes Day ruled out a halt of Ameri can bombing activity below the20th parallel and cited evidence of a massive Viet Cong North Vietnam buildup for an anticipated new round of attacks inthe South. Rusk asked for authoritative sources in Hanoi to say directly or indirectly what would happen in the future if there were a to Tal . Bombing halt in the these declarations were made in midweek Hanoi replied through Paris negotiators that american leaders were shame less liars who sought to Esca late the War while calling for peace. Privately however newsmen in Paris Are reporting that North Vietnam diplomatic sources Are hinting that the reduced level of fighting in South Vietnam does have political significance and is a sign of re Vietnam has demanded a total halt in . Bombing be fore discussing any other questions with . Negotiators i Paris. Rusk is asking for u package agreement on military arrangements which would in clude a . Bombing halt combined with assurances by North Vietnam that the scale of the fighting would be reduced. American authorities say there is no question that there has been a Lull in ground fight ing in South Vietnam. But the Lull is attributed to re training and regrouping require ments not to a softening of the North vietnamese position. The United states has improved its technique for Esti mating the North Vietnam infiltration route into the South. Part of this is based on the sightings of trucks entering the pipeline for infiltration along the to Chi Minh Trail through officials said that if this evidence had led them to con clude that if what was happen ing on the ground showed restraint the United states would move ahead and Stop the bomb ing. But the evaluation remain fixed Here that Hanoi is preparing for a major Nev third round attack later this month on Sai gon and other Urban centers. The state department issued statement saturday on a Washington Post Story fro Paris which said authoritative North vietnamese sources attributed political significance to the decreased a Vel of fighting in South Vietnam. Press officer Clark Ellis said we have of Coine carefully noted reports of tin have had a number of such reports from All Over the world in recent weeks Dea ing with statements by North Viet namese to journalist and Otner unofficial people. 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