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sections of the community inhabiting different regions. This dichotomy is easily explainable The French party has continued to be tied by the cate- chisms and policy lines handed down fay Moscow; to that extent, its initiative has been crippled and its imagination put in a strait-jacket The party has naturally failed to evolve a programme which, while not sacrificing the minimum obligations of international proletarian solidarity, could still place maximum stress on marrying these with national goals and aspirations, The Italian party did not have to suffer from this particular debilitation, The poly- eentrism preached by its late Secretary- General, Palmiro Togliatti, has stood it in good stead since 1958, and it has succeeded in emerging as a truly national party, which has paved the way of even further success. There is a lesson in this for many others.