Slovak Writers in Revolt

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The July 13th Economist carried a long article on the discontont of the Slovak-writers and intellectuals, Among the facts it roported was a spooch by Professor Hysko, at the Slovak writers congress in April, in which he directly accused Mr, Siroky, the prime minister of Czecho= slovakia, of partial responsibility for the rigged trials of Slovak Communists in the early 1950s, At the Slovak journalists! congress held in May, one minutes silence was observed in honour of Clemantis and two other Slovak vict=ims of the trials, According to Hadio Bratislava the congress displayed an *uncomproming" attitude in condemnation of tha personality cult, Despite a counterattack by the Stalinist loaders hip of the CS%choslovak C,P., the ga is APYRs ck to their guns, The latest issue of the Slovak liter ary woek yarn need that the struggle would go on: "I+ is not" the editor wrote “a brief campaign, but a historical and revolutionary process."