A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
HE Russians never tire of calling attention to T, symptoms of disunity, conflicts of interest and other fissiparous features of the Western bloc; we, by contrast, tend to regard the Communist bloc as much more monolithic than, probably, it is. This may explain why everybody•seems to accept as a natural if not an inevitable sequel to M. Malenkov's outbreak of petits soins the decision of the Chinese and North Korean Governments to resume, with an appearance of sincerity, the truce talks in Korea. If you regard the Chinese and North Koreans as puppets of the Kremlin, the whole thing of course makes sense; they went on fighting because Stalin told them to; now Malenkov has told them that they may (or perhaps must) stop fighting, so they are taking the appropriate action.
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