893.00B/9–149: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Jones) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:39 p. m.]
1975. Re Embtel 1951, August 30 to Department.22 Manner in which CCP has seized bull by horns in connection with current Soviet campaign against Titoism confirms that Chinese Communist leaders are extremely sensitive to threat which Chinese nationalism offers to their own program of unconditional subservience to USSR.
CCP press coverage of this Soviet-Yugoslav dispute is all out of proportion to importance it holds for China. Thunderous denunciations of Titoism by New China News Agency, “democratic personages” and mass organizations show CCP to be more Papist than Pope as respects leading role of Soviet Union in “Anti-imperialist camp”. General effect of this press campaign is to anathematize all utterances, whether private or public, against pro-Soviet orientation of CCP. It may also be inspired in part by CCP determination to intimidate and suppress forces of Chinese democratic individualism as defined in White Paper.
It is to be noted that no top rank Chinese Communist has yet expressed himself publicly on this subject. Quite possibly they consider it unnecessary in view of July 1948 resolution of Central Committee of CCP on question of Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
Sent Department, repeated Shanghai 1072, OffEmb Canton 811, Moscow 62.
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