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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, December 18, 1957



Communist Party Attempt To Control
Armed Forces Results In Inefficiency

“Communist party documents are
among the most reliable sources
of information on;the USSR,” said
Mr. J. Sorrenson, of the Russian
Institute, who spoke on the struggle
for political power in Soviet Rus-
sia, on December 16 in the Com-
mon Room.

It was precisely through one of
these documents that the ousting
of Marshal Zhukhovy was first made
known. The explanation for this
move lies in the fact that Zhukhov,
in his attempt to free the Red
Army from party control, reopened
an old Russian feud. According to
the Marxist doctrines, the Army
should be ‘‘a tool, not an independ-
ent political force”; the prevail-
ing dread of Bonapartism would
spur the-party on to do everything
in its power to subordinate the
army to itself. Practically speak-
ing, the Communist party is all too
well aware of the army’s strength.

With the installation of the com-
missar as a check on the army, and
the system of the countersignature,
certain drawbacks became evident.
First of. all, this. ereated ineffi-
ciency in army policy. In addition,
the soldiers would naturally resent
the outsider’s intrusion in what
they considered to be their own
affairs. The commissars, on their
part, were in constant danger of
death if they for some reason
failed to perform their duties prop-
erly; consequently, they would be
doubly strict.

After 1924, when this system was

, temporarily abandoned, one mili-
tary commander was in charge of
a regular army, and a “territorial
militia.“ However, after the purge
of the 30’s, which eventually affect-



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ed the army, the number of coni-
missars doubled, and the counter-
signature system was reinstalled,
for political loyalty was then more
important than army efficiency. Yet
this inefficiency showed up in the
Russo-Finnish war, much to the
embarrassmént of the Soviets.

Following/the Hitler invasion: in
1940, many (minority groups on the
border, such as the Ukranians, de-
fected to the German side. Once
more, the Russian government de-
cided that political stability was
more essential than mere efficiency,
and again subordinated the army
to party doctrines:

Zhukhov, then, in his attempts
to raise the army’s importance in
the eyes of everyone, and to sub-
ordinate a great deal to the Min-
istry of Defense, presented a sub-
stantial threat to the Communist
Party, one which it had to elimin-
ate by scrapping the efficient cause,
namely Zhukhov, However Zhukhov
never~intended,” . Mr. ..Sorrenson
thought, “for ‘the army to take
over. Instead, he envisaged a shar-
ing of power with the government
rather than seizing of power.

Mr. Sorrenson concluded by say-
ing that, although the, Red Army
included approximately 14 percent
of non-party members who are
nevertheless loyal to the regime,





Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

The response to the Undergrad
poll on traditions was appreciated,
‘stimulating, and valuable. The
Executive and Advisory Boards
are now acting to revise the rites
in accordance with the ideas and
opinions expressed in the ques-
tionnaire answers.

Sincerely,
(Catharine Stimpson
President | os
‘Undergraduate
Association

West Point

Continued from Page 1

the delegates were well-informed
and deeply concerned with the
issues involved and represented a
wide range of points of view. The
excitement generated by the con-
ference pervaded even its more in-
formal moments. We found our-
selves re-examining our own views
under the pressure of conflicting
arguments, and came away with a
sense of having at least sharply de-
lineated the questions implicit in
the shaping of foreign policy.



a basic sense of security ig ob-
viously still lacking in that regime.
The very mechanism of control is a
proof of the Party’s failure to cre-
ate the kind of loyalty which pre-
vails in the West today.

















Still More Poll — ;

Continued from Page 5

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in the sense that they can think
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their ‘major subject’ is science or
humanities.”



Joshua Hubbard, Economics:

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.. » but if educational institutions
and foundations wake up to this
fact they’ll be able to balance the
increased emphasis on the sciences.
I think this awareness will lead
to a strengthening of American
education in general. ‘Obviously I
don’t think it will affect the Bryn
Mawr curriculum,._I think that
students interested in the human-
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as being the outstanding women’s
college in the humanities.”



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