Rumania: The Independent Satellite

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In preparation for that showdown, Khrushchev wanted to gather all Eastern European leaders this week in War saw on the 20th anniversary of the city's Red army "liberation" to sound out their feelings in the Sino-Soviet quarrel. But Gheorghiu-Dej refused to attend the Warsaw "summit," and to avoid embarrassment, Khrushchev limited his invitations to Poland's immediate neighbors, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht and Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Rumania appeared to have won the opening round in its fight for economic independence.