THE SOCIALIST COMMONWEALTH.

WARSAW (Poland); POLAND; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; SOVIET Union

Comments on the Soviet Union invasion of Czechoslovakia. Justification given by Pravda, an official organ of the Soviet Communist Party, regarding the invasion; Details about the doctrine given by Leonid Brezhnev, general Secretary of the Soviet Party during a congress of the Polish Party in Warsaw, Poland which reaffirms the provocative context of the Czech invasion; Comparison of the doctrine with the Monroe Doctrine which was limited both geographically and qualitatively to affirm the attempts by European powers to extend their political systems to the U.S.; Provision in the Brezhnev Doctrine which justifies the Soviet Union's intervention in any nation whenever the leadership discerns a threat to socialism coming from that nation.