SOVIET~JCP DISPUTE GOES ON based on Hsinhua reports
Although there is a lull in the Sino-Soviet dispute, one of its most important by-products continues unabated. Most readers will have read of the expulsion from the Japanese Communist Party of Yoshio Shiga, Ichizo Suzuki and other former leaders of that party because of their support of the Test Ban Treaty. Now it appears that these people are going to set up another Communist arty with Soviet support. Indeed, Yoshio Shiga is on his way to the Soviet Union just now on the invitation of: the'Marxism-Leninism Institute of the Central Committee of the CPSU. According to the Kyodo News Agency, Mr. Shiga said he planned to hold talks with the new Soviet leaders and seek their explanations about Khrushchov's fall.
On October 30th, the Soviet paper Trud devoted its entire third page to articles by Japanese and Soviet writers on the situation in Japan, These articles quoted and praised the journal set up by Messrs. Shiga andSuzuki, Voice of Japan. iAmonz these articles were ones attacking the JCP leadership - some going so far as to says "The JCP leaders are in the same camp with those who oppress and exploit the Japanese working class,"
Akahata, the journal of the JCP, commented editorially on Mr. Shiga's trip to Moscow, under the title of "The Conspiracy of Yoshio's Shiga's trip to the Soviet Union" in its November Ath issue. It said that Shiga's group suffered a telling blow as the result of Khrushchov's removal and the trip was being made to recover lost ground. The article concluded: "The leadership of the Soviet party was compelled to relieve Khrushchov of his posts because of the aggravation of contradictions in the Khrushchov revisionist line. It is precisely because of this that Shiga's attempt to place his last hopes on the new leadership of the Soviet Union will likewise be doomed to fail, If some people abroad think that this handful of despicable anti-party revisionists are still useful to them they will surely be severely condemed by history."