The ideological squabble between the Soviet Union and Communist China burst into full public view the United Nations last week during the India‐Pakistan debate. The invective reached the point where the Chinese delegate, Huang Rua, referred to the Soviet delegate, Yakov Malik, as “Mister” rather than “Comrade,” an especially cutting insult among Communists. Following are some of the, exchanges, reflecting the image (see above) each side has of the other:

HUANG: “The present Soviet Government is out and out social imperialism. . . Soviet social imperialism, which connives at Indian aggression, will come to no good end either.”

MALIK: “The Chinese representative, with his vicious, pathological slander against the Soviet Union, is aspiring to the role of an imperialist jester. . . . Let him continue his invidious activity. May I wish him success. That Is entirely in accord with the conceptions of the Chinese traitors to socialism.”

HUANG: “This [Russia's position on India] is exactly the same tactic it has used in the Middle East. The Soviet social imperialists are carrying out aggression, control, subversion and expansion everywhere. Everyone will recall the Soviet military aggression and armed occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.”

MALIK: “What lay behind [this] manifestation pathological hatred against the Soviet Union? To conceal a Chinese concept that the greater the degree of disturbance, terror, violence and general lack tranquillity the better.”