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After a year's haggl deadlock and delay, Moscon's long-awaited Conference' of European Communist Party leaderships was scheduled to meet_yesterday and today in East Berlin.

no lads a rugosay deigiba • an mternatonal stabnist gather ing for the first time in almost twenty nine years.

Kumanians Rumanians and the French, arties refused to attend unless every letter and dot of the 'final communique' were agreed in advance - a drafting committee has been horse-trading parases in East Berlin over recent months.

Now they have arrived at a 36page formula (in secret, so as not to embarass, for example, the Italian Communist Party during the recent elections), and the leaders can safely 'confer and annoint it.

This formula will, as all involved well understand, mean even less than the little it appears to say.

The Soviet Communist Party -which made such an issue of the "sacred principle' of "proletarian internationalism' and the "dictatorship of the proletariat" at their recent Congress - have decided to drop these.

Instead the Italians expression internationalist solidarity' will be used, and the CPSU will content itself with undertakings to 'defend the socialist countries, starting with the USSR'. •diplomacy Prablems of Statinist These are understandable.

While Brezhner takes his stand on the dictatomhip of the proletariat"

Italian Communist Party embroils itself in behind-the-scenes negotiations for a coalition with the hirelings of Lockheed in teh Christian Democratic Party, and other 'democrats'.

And Santiago Carrillo's Spanish CP has gone even further - opening up direct contacts with leading figures of the Fascist government, including Interior Minister Fraga Iribane:

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