CHANGES IN RUSSIA
Communist Party Rules Altered ^fOSCOW, March o. A fundamental reorganisation of the Russian Communist Party is annouuced following a ten days' secret session of the party 's central committee. The party 's right to the monopoly of the leadership is reasserted but the committee decided that the principle of "demoeratie centralism" must be introduced enabling all members to participate freely and criticise all party and Government matters. All party officials must be elected byi a majority vote and party elections will' in future be condueted by meanB of a secret ballot instead of a show of hands as at present. The Soviet press describes thesel changes in the party 's constitution as: making a landmark in Soviet history because they mean that the mass willj now be directly in control of the elec-' tion of the country 'j) ruling group. j
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 44, 8 March 1937, Page 9
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