noes gt WORLD Iraq CP goes A Bagdad court has assent- ed to the Aref regime’s de- mand for the dissolution of the Iraqi Communist Party. It ordered the closure of the Party’s branches throughout the country and seizure of its property. The court injunction claim- ed that the Party was proved to be “an agent party” by its opposition to the coup which overthrew the Kassem gov- ernment. In London, Eng., the newly- formed British Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in Iraq announced at a press conference that it hoped to send a fact-finding commis- underground sion to Iraq aS soon aS poOs- sible. The committee’s secre- tary, Labor MP Will Griffiths, said the committee’s aim was to urge the Iraqi government that the thousands of people jailed should be brought to trial or released. If the Iraqi government re- fused to facilitate a visit by a fact-finding commission ‘“‘it would not be very helpful to their case,’ Griffiths said. Following last February's coup, “indiscriminate killings and wholesale imprisonment of wide sections of the popu- lation have taken place and continue,’ he declared. Changes in leadership The Czechoslovak Commun- ist Party has announced that its Central Committee decid- HE NEW YORK TIMES FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1963, 3 [ Taytor Indicates Indians Started Clash With Chinese: WASHINGTON, April 18, (UPI)—-Gen. Maxwell D, Tay-! lor, Chairman of the Jointi Chiefs of Staff, indicated in! secret Congressional testimony made public today that India might have started the border fight with Communist China. ~The‘ previously accepted ver-| -sion of the border fighting that flared last fall was that Com- jes China had attacked In- dian troops. : General "Taylor's statement § was made Feb. 14 in testimony before the chairmanship of Representative George H. Ma- hon, Democrat of Texas. The genera] was questioned by Rep- resentative a. L, F. Sikes, Democrat of Florida. “Let me talk about the Red China and the Indian opera- tion,” Mr. Sikes said. “Did the Indians actually start this mili- tary $y operation” ey’ were edging forward in the disputed aren” ” replied General Taylor. “Yes sir.” At»this point the testimony was censored out of the public .transcript. : ee Above is a clipping from the New York Times. ‘Disengage in Disengagement in Europe must be achieved in the short- est time, said a report issued recently by an international meeting in Brussels, called to discuss the German question. The delegation from _ the German Democratic Republic was prevented from attending by the operation of a travel ban by the western powers in West Berlin. A paper was: read from the GDR. On West Berlin the report recommends that as a free city its independence should be guaranteed by Britain, France, the U.S. and U-S.S.R. ed on April 4 to remove Karol Bacilek from the Party Presi- dium and from his position as First Secretary of the Slovak CP. Also removed from his position as a secretary of the Czechoslovak CP was Bruno Koehler. An editorial in the party newspaper Rude Pravo made it clear that the dismissals were in connection with the violations of party principles and socialist legality that oc- curred from 1949 to 1954. It said that a review of what took place ‘enabled the final conclusion and _ justifi- able solution of all questions connected with the political trials of some leading party and government officials.”’ It was in 1952 that the gen- eral secretary of the Czechos- lovak CP, Rudolph Slansky, and ten others were executed after a triak in which they were found guilty of high treason and espionage. The paper added that an in- vestigation is being made of, cases where people were “‘pro- secuted without justification” and stated that those whose innocence was fully establish- ed would receive legal and civil rehabilitation, as well as having their party member- chip recognized. Europe-’ bid The troops of the three west- ern occupation powers in West Berlin should be reduc- ed and for the time being placed under the authority of the U.N. Present borders should be recognized, especially at the Oder-Neisse line, and a Ger- -man peace treaty should be worked out. Neither German states should be allowed aio- mic weapons. : Messages to the conference came from Britain’s Lord Rus- sell and U.S. senators Full- bright and Pell, as well as from Walter Lippman and C. Sulzberger. Sino-Soviet talks in July The Chinese Communist Party has agreed to talks with the Soviet Communist Party starting in Moscow on July 5, the New China News Agency has announced. It said the date was pro- posed by the Soviet Com- munist Party central commit- tee. The announcement came within 24 hours of a Soviet announcement that the Cen- tral Committee of the Soviet Communist Party has postpon- ‘ed its regular plenary meeting from May 28 to June 18. ‘CLOSE LOOPHOLES FOR MONOPOLIES’ New deal for taxpayers urged in brief to Royal Commission A drastic revision of the tax structure in Canada and a redistribution of the nation- al income to increase purchas- ing power, and meet expand- ing social needs, is urged in a brief of the Communist Party of Canada to the Royal Com- mission on Taxation, released this week. The brief, entitled “A New Deal for Canadian Taxpay- ers,” points out that there is a “growing disproportion be- tween the responsibilities of provincial and municipal gov- ernments and their sources of tax revenue.” Pointing out that distribu- tion of tax powers has not kept abreast of historic chan- ges and the country’s develop- ment, the brief says that Can- ada urgently needs a new con- stitution, written in Canada, which would affirm the. two- nation character of the Can- adian state, and redefine the powers of federal and provin- cial levels of government. The brief states that there are certain tax-supported ser- vices such as family allowanc- es, old age pensions, unem- ployment insurance, medical services, and primary and sec- ondary education, which can be operated effectively only by the central government. Drawing attention to the fact that many municipalities are unable to provide the needed level of education, the brief urges that costs become a national responsibility. It adds that the administration of education must, however, continue to be a responsibility of provincial governments, with the federal government making the necessary pay- ments as a statutory and ir- revocable right. HIT ARMS SPENDING The brief. criticizes heavy armament expenditures over the last 15 years which are “both unnecessary and waste- fal Other highlights in the brief make these points: 1. Responsibility for social service should be reallocated with the federal- provincial governments agreeing on ba- NATO Contd. from pg. 1 Treaty Organization act--“to ease international tensions Dy promoting negotiation of in- ternational disputes, the im- mediate objectives being to end nuclear tests and to pre- vent the spread of nuclear arms.” The brief stressed the need for agreement between NATO and the Warsaw Pact coun- tries for a denuclearized zone in Europe, and urged that the ultimate objective be general and complete disarmament under international contrals - New Soviet film My University”’ (Based on novel by Maxim Gorky) English sub-titles Russian People’s Home 600 Campbell Ave. Sunday, May 26, 8 p.m. Silver Collection (Children admitted free) sic minimum levels; that the federal government pay 380 percent of the cost of a na- tional, health plan; and that medi¢al and hospital services be no longer treated as if they were the responsibility of the municipalities. The brief points out that such re-division would lift the burden off municipalities and enable them to cope with problems such as public works, roads and urban de- velopment. It also urges low interest loans to municipali- ties. 2. Pointing out that the pre- sent tax load inflicts hardships on individuals and their fam- ilies, the brief states that the “best interests of Canada will be served when the main source of tax revenues shall be those incomes and accumu- lations of wealth which are large enough so that the amounts which remain after taxes are adequate to cover all socially necessary spend- ing.” ‘ABILITY TO PAY’ Urging application of the principle of ‘“‘ability to pay”, the brief proposes: e An increase of the basic tax exemption to $2,000 for single persons, $3,000 for married persons; @ Allow university fees to be deducted from taxable in- come; e Allow the cost of special schooling or care of children who are mentally or physical- ly retarded as deductions from taxable income. @ Allow the cost of child care to mothers who work full time to be deducted before her wages are assessed for tax. @ Allow as deductible from taxable income, taxes paid upon homes of assessed value not exceeding $5,000, occupied by their owners. 3. The brief is sharply crit- ical of various methods used by big corporations to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. It also protests practic- es which permit special al- lowances to large companies which favor the take-over of our national resources by big U.S. companies. CLOSE LOOPHOLES The brief proposes that all “loopholes” used by big bus- iness be “stopped up,’ and that corporation profits taxes be paid on all profits made. 4. Turning to tax conces- sions to foreign corporations, the brief states that the pres- ent 15 percent witholding tax which foreign investors and corporations taking funds out of Canada have to pay is, “completely inequitable to the Canadian people who have to maintain the governmental services and other amenities which make Canada attractive to foreign investors.” 5. The brief proposes that an annual tax on capital gains, both realized and un- realized, be introduced by the federal government. It urges that this tax include within its scope every investor who lives outside of Canada and the owners of foreign-owned corporations. 6. Singled out as inequi- table and discriminatory are sales taxes on consumer goods and excise taxes. The brief urges that the sales tax be abolished as quickly as pos- sible and that excise taxes be levied only on the “value added’’, instead of being py- ramided as is the case now. sa Over 1,000 Longshoremen staged a two-hour demonstration in Vancouver last Thursday, May 16. The men left their jobs to empha- size support for the position of their negotiating committee. (See story on Page 3.) _ May 24, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 12.