In June 1964, when Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker, at that time “shadow” minister on the opposition benches, returned to Britain from a short visit to Rumania, he denned the new policies of the Rumanian Workers Party as “national communism.” This definition is generally accepted. The term, coined some seventeen years ago on the occasion of Titoist Yugoslavia's defiance of Stalinist Russia and serving ever since to describe the policies of any small Communist power in quest of national independence, corresponds almost perfectly to the twin objectives of the Rumanian Workers Party's new policies. As far as “communism” is concerned, its conception is essentially the triple dogma of speedy industrialization, total collectivization, and the full maintenance of the state and the functions of the dictatorship of the proletariat under the monolithic guidance of the party. But as far as the “national” side of the term is concerned, this previously servile party has distinguished itself by the bold and steady way it has progressively affirmed the desire of the Rumanian People's Republic for independence from any individual state or group of powers.