Czech Communist Party Confsrence Opens with Attack On'albanians!

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Opening the l2th Congress of the Czech CP in Prague on Dec. 5th, President Novotny launched a strong ettack on the Albanian CP and accused it of inciting a thermo-nuclear wer during the Cuban crisis. Listeners would no doubt realise that this attack was directed against China as it xtremely aifficult to see how a country the size of Albania (are, about 4 that of Scotland with the population of Birmingham) could incite thermonuclear war. He also anmounced that the cental committee had decided to review political trials held between 1949 and 1954, "draw the tasic conclusions from them and liquidate the matter". The most important political trial of the period was that of Rudolf Slansky and his supporters. Slansky the former Gen. Sec. of the party, together with 10 other leading members of the Communist Igrty were executed after being accused of being capitalist agents, Zionism, Trotskyism and Titoism. Novitny should know all about this affair because he wes publicly praised for helping to umecover the "Slansky plot! and he climbed to party leadership over the bodies of those executede A year ago he rejected calls for Slansky’s rehabilitation and clained that Slansky had ruled Czechoslovakia with the methods of terror used by Beria.