British CP expels eight

The London (Eng.) District
Committee of the Communist
Party has expelledeight mem-
bers from the party for breaches
of rule. They were charged with
breaking the rules of the party by
signing a public document which
included false statements mal-
igning the party and with publicly
opposing its democratically de-
cided policy.

The eight members were in-
vited to attend and speak at the
meeting of the district com-
mittee, but none of them did so.

The committee decided that
they had broken the rules by pub-
licly campaigning against the po-
licy decided by the party con-
gress. They had also made a
number of false statements, in-

cluding the allegation that the
party leadership had suppressed
discussion on the international
controversy.

Another false statement was
that ‘*Marxists had been forbid-
den to speak to branches or write
in the press.”’

The committee pointed out that
the 1963 party congress had wit-

_nessed a full and unfettered dis-
cussion of the international ideol-
ogical debate and letters had con-
tinually been published in the
party press on the question.

But the eight members, it said,

had broken the rules and resort- ~

ed to public attacks on the party
precisely because in the demo-
cratic discussions within it they
could get virtually no support for
their views.

Surgeon on trial-nazi law

A half-Jewish West German
surgeon has been accused under
nazi law of sterilizing 149 women
without adequate medical
grounds. ;

The surgeon, Dr. Alex Dohrn,
55 year old father of three child-
ren, is standing trial at the High
Court in Hanover. If the court,
presided over by a Catholic judge,
finds the doctor guilty he faces a
two year prison sentence.

He told the court he has steri-

_ lized about 1,300 women since the
war - to save their lives, their
health or their marriages and
spoke about women who love their
**television set more than a
child," of women whose sexual
appetites were ‘*completely un-

controlled’’ and of women who
**wandered from hospital to hos-
pital’’ seeking an abortion.

Three of his patients, including
two 19 year olds, were sterilized
after birth in his hospital totheir
third illegitimate child.

Asked if he had not considered
the possible illigality of the ope-
rations, the doctor said: ‘‘I did
not and I know Not of a law which
forbids us to perform an opera-
tion at the request of the patient.’’
He added that doctors regard the
nazi ‘‘hereditary health’? law as
defunct.

The doctor is being tried des-
pite protest petitions signed by
10,000 women and nearly 50doc-
tors.

Vietnam regime new puppet

South Vietnam’s national libe-
_ ration front held an extraordinary
session on Nov. 7 and 8 to examine
the situation in the country after
the recent coup, it has been re-
ported. :
A statement issued after the
session said the coup had brought
_ about the danger of the present
war of aggression being extended
by the U.S. and the danger of the

dictatorial regime being main- .

tained in a new form.

The U.S. engineered the mili-
tary coup, it said, to prolong the
reactionary regime inSouth Viet-

“ham and replaced the Ngo Dinh
Diem family with new lackeys.

‘Follow Cuba’

Chants of the Cuban slogan...
**Fatherland or Death; we will
win’’.... were heard last week’at
mass rallies called by the Peop-
les’ Progressive Party to protest
against the British government’s
new proposals for Guiana.

The rallies, held from one end
of the country to the other, heard

Solidarity grows

Melbourne dockers have re-
fused to load any arms or
ammunition bound for South
Africa and their union has
called on the Australian Coun-
cil of Trade Unions to imple-
ment a total ban on exports |
to Premier Verwoerd’s re-
public as a protest against the
“cruel and unjust’? apartheid
policy.

Boycott demands are also
growing in labor circles in

London, Eng. and Glasg

It put forward a 6-point pro-.
gram for the people ofSouth Viet-
nam which includes:

* Abolition of the fascist re-
gime and the policy of subservi-
ence to U.S. imperialism.

* Release of all political pris-
oners and punishment of those
guilty of crimes against the
people.

* Withdrawal of all U.S. ad-
visers, personnel and war ma-
terial.

Once independent, the state-
ment said, South Vietnam would
pursue a course of neutrality and
non-alignment.

says Guiana

young Guinanese declare they
would now follow the Castro way
to independence and socialism.

The Premier, Dr. Cheddi Jag-
an, addressing more than 10,000
peasants and farmers, warned
that if his party had to use force
to achieve independence, it would
do so.

The PPP secretary, Mrs. Jan-
et Jagan, speaking at one rally,
declared the time had come when
the Guianese must no longer talk
in mild language to the British
government. ‘*They must feel the
wrath of the people. They have

listened to counter-revolution; —

now they will have to listento re-
volution.’*

A statement read at the rallies
accused the British government
of rewarding crime in its new
proposals to ‘‘solve’’ the question
of Guiana’s independence. Mur-

der, arson, theft and abuse ofthe :

elected government
it eha

TWO SIDES TO JFK POLICIES

Kennedy policies were under fire |
from wild men of ultra right =

The assassin’s bullet struck
President Kennedy down four
months after the signature of the
nuclear test ban treaty which the
world hoped would be the be-
ginning of the end of the cold
war.

This first and limited step
toward reducing international
tension and toward agreement
with the Soviet Union brought
President Kennedy under fire
from Washington’s wild men and
warmongers of every hue.

Similarly, the Southern racial-
ists objected even to the modest
and inadequate civil rights pro-
gram associated with him, which
remained largely on paper, but
which they nevertheless con-
sidered went too far to meet the
demands of the Negro people.
“In his farewell address, Presi-
dent Eisenhower warned of the

danger ‘‘of unwarranted influence
by the military-industrial com-
plex’’ in the U.S. and-in the influ-
ence of the arms kings ‘‘in every
city, every office of the Federal
Government.”

* * *

This infuence continued unab-
ated throughout Kennedy’s presi-
dency and resulted in the U.S.
arms bill surpassing even. the
$50,000-million mark.

President Kennedy was form-
ally inaugurated on January 20,
1961, following the election the
previous November when he de-
feated the Republican candidate,
Richard Nixon, who had been
vice-president in the Eisenhower
Administration.

His majority over Nixon was
one of the narrowest in Ameri-
can history with his total popular

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Kamloops labor runs
council candidate

Kamloops labor council last
week nominated its secretary-
treasurer, Mrs. C, E. McInnes,
to contest the Dec. 5th alderman-
ic race, There are four candi-
dates to fill three vacancies on the
council.

In nominating Mrs. McInnes the
labor council also announced it
will back the Kamloops Civic
Association candidate Gardner
Boultbee for council.

A statement on the civic elec-
tions issued by the labor coun-
cil last Thursday said it was
**eravely concerned’’ over prob-
lems facing civic governments,

The statement said that *‘ under
the present basis for municipal
financing the homeowner and
small businessman are forced to
bear an unbearable tax load,
The municipal debt continues to
climb and the interest on debt
is reaching almost. fantastic
heights.’’ It said that the muni-
cipal crisis could only be avert-
ed if ‘‘senior governments

_ assume their responsibility to

municipalities.”*

_, A three-point program was
announced at

the labo

didates will seek to implement if
elected. These are:

1, Attempt to attract more in-
dustry to the area because it
will create a healthier employ-
ment situation and ease the tax
burden. The main pre-requisite
for industry is cheap power and
the Columbia would provide such
power if developed for Canada.
Municipal councils should unite
to demand the Columbia treaty
be scrapped,

2. Ask for more senior govern-
ment sharing education costs be-
cause they bear no relationship
to property, the present basis
of education tax. The labor coun-
cil pledges to provide the lead-
ership to other councils for uni-
fication to force ‘‘the senior goy-
ernments to live up to their
responsibility.’’

3. Introduce a graduated busi-
ness tax which would be the
only ‘fair method of getting big
businesses and prosperous pro-
fessionals’? to pay their share
of municipal costs.

This will be the second try for
Mrs. McInnes for election to
council, She was also a candi-
date in the ‘civic election last

vote reaching 34,221,531 com-
pared with 34,108,474 for Nixon— 4
a majority of just over 113,000.

One of the first to congratulate —
the new President was Soviet —
Premier Khrushchev, who hoped —
that American-Soviet relations
would return to the path they took —
in Franklin Roosevelt’s time.

His inaugural address was not-
able for the ringing phrase: ** Let —
us never negotiate out offear. But —
let us never fear to negotiate.’’

Yet far from ending the arms
race, he looked forward to its —
intensification.

His first action in the inter-
national field was to have aSum-
mit meeting in Viennawith Khru- —
shchev in June 1961. Meeting
for the first time, they dis-
cussed a nuclear test ban, dis-
armament, the German question, —
Laos and other matters that were ‘
to figure largely in later
exchanges,

* * *

Hardly had President Kennedy ©
left Vienna than the world faced —
a major crisis over U.S. mili-
tary moves in Berlin with the
President making one of his most
bellicose speeches, boasting his —
readiness to go to war.

But it was October, 1962 that —
the Kennedy policy over Cuba
brought the world to the brink of
nuclear war, when new threats to
Cuba’s independence by the
mobilization of U.S. armedforces —
were challenged by the Soviet —
Union.

Yet beforethat, President Ken- —
nedy’s action in condoning the ©
plans prepared by the U.S. Cen- —
tral Intelligence Agency for the
notorious Bay of Pigs invasion
attempt against Cuba in April,
1961 showed the dangers of his
policy.

The attempt failed, but ever
since, whatever other peace —
moves he may have attempted, his
hatred of Cuba and his declared
determination to smashthe Cuban
revolution has been amainthemeé
in all his speeches,

Fortunately President Kennedy
drew back from the brink and 4
series of exchanges’ began
between him and Khrushchev
which resulted in the test ban
treaty, the establishment of the
**hot line’? between Moscow and
Washington and further contacts.

The two faces of President
Kennedy’s policy were typified
by what happened on June 11 this
year when he madea speech call-
ing for the ending of the cold war
and the pursuit of peace—a speech
which was hailed by Khrushchev
as ‘fa step forward in a realistic
appraisal of the international
situation’’. :

* * Sd

Barely a fortnight after, he wa5
in Berlin making what the WeS-
tern Press called ‘‘a triumph®
progress, the like of which Ber~
lin had not seen since the days 0
Hitler,”’ and ending up with a?
hysterical speech which was the
cold war at its worst. :

Educated at Harvard Univer
sity and the London School of
Economics, the President serve®
with distinction as a nave
lieutenant during the Second
World War in the Pacific.

He entered politics in 1946
at the age of 29, as Democrati
Congressman for Massachusetts —
11th Congressional district.

After three terms in the Hous
of Representatives, he decid

-to run for the Senate in 1952

In 1956 he suffered his o”
political defeat when he narro
missed the- Democratic n

+ tion for Vice- Preside