The Roll Call

The latest Communist state to side with Moscow in the Sino-Soviet dispute is Outer Mongolia, 615,000 sq. mi. of pastureland and rolling hills set smack between the two quarreling titans.

For several years, while both Russia and China poured economic assistance into the remote area, there was some question as to whose satellite Outer Mongolia would be. Then last October Russia did Outer Mongolia the favor of shouldering it into the U.N., and boosted its economic aid to $975 million, clearly overshadowing Peking's handout of $115 million. Last week the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party put its mouth where its money is and denounced Albania's "malicious and slanderous attacks" on Moscow. The Mongolian Reds also dared to criticize Red China for not submitting to Soviet ideological supremacy, and dutifully de-stalinized their own late dictator, Khorlogiin Choibalsan (1895-1952), whose last reported resting place was a stalinesque red stone mausoleum in the center of Ulan Bator. The familiar charge: Choibalsan nurtured a "cult of personality."

Along with Outer Mongolia, the majority of the world's Communist movements have allied themselves solidly with Khrushchev. Others line up thus:

INCLINED TOWARD Moscow but split, the Communist parties of Brazil, India, Japan.

INCLINED TOWARD PEKING but split, the parties of Burma, Indonesia, Malaya, Morocco, Thailand.

FOR PEKING, the parties of Albania, Australia, North Korea, North Viet Nam.

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