XIV. Meeting of the PCC, Warsaw, 17-18 April 1974
Editorial Note 

During the two years that had elapsed since the previous PCC meeting, the climax of détente had passed and the Sino-American rapprochement had created in the Soviet eyes the threat of China's collusion with NATO. The PCC approved a statement calling for measures to increase the Warsaw Pact's combat readiness, but Brezhnev tried in vain to obtain Romanian support for a resolution condemning China. Honecker lost patience with Ceauşescu, accusing Romania of playing "objectively" into NATO's hands.

With discord within the alliance in plain view, Gierek's call for a special session to celebrate its twentieth anniversary in Warsaw the following year sounded hollow, and no such session in fact took place.

Vojtech Mastny