The September 3rd Guardian carried an editorial which in part readst =
™ir, Khrushchov ends his working holiday in Yugoslavia today, having bestowed a fairly comprehensive benediction of the former heretics of Belgrede, Idseclogically specking, their position is on enviable one: they must now be fecling the same sort of smug complacency which Martin Luther would have felt if, after successfully defying the Pops, he had been offered a cardinal's hat and possibly canonis2tion to come. One of the central doctrines’ of Yugoslav comminisn is the belief that workers' councils contain the germ of the Commnist society of the futuro. A few years ago the Soviet Union denounced this doctrine as “a debased variant of a numbor of revisionist theories of Right- Wing Social Democrats" ; and although lir, Khrushchovy spoke of the the workars' councils in moderately friendly terms as long ago as 1957 he made it clear that they were not for export to the Soviot Union. Now he has declared categorically that he “likes this form of organisation," and that the workers" councils arc a "progressive institution," Soviet party and trade union commissions are to be sent to Yugoslavin to study workers’ councils — appar= ently undeterred by the fact that similar delegations may be sent on oxactly the same mission by the debased, revisionist, Right-wing Social Democrats on the General Council of the British T.U.C...."