aq! 1 urna enn a Would not include food. Dominion tatus for BWI urged LONDON Four proposals to bring the pobosed Caribbean Federation line with the demands of &st Indians for democracy Be dominion status are be- is advanced by the British mmunist party. foe tter discussing the terms i, the recent British Carib- ean Federation Act, the ‘rty’s political committee ints out: wee present federation plan Is far short of the aspira- ns of the Caribbean people.” Before is can become the cls of a democratic federa- a four demands must be 1—The immense power of Veto given to the gover- Nor-general must be with- drawn. . {There must be a real cab- ; et, selected by the prime Minister and dependent On the confidence of the Ouse of Representatives, and its advice must be | binding on the governor- Seneral. S+Bans on travel between | the islands, on literature, | 4nd on the rights of politi- “al organizations must be annulled. eoivin liberties must be legally safeguarded, so hat citizens can exercise ir democratic rights Without fear. cet nominated section of cell of state negates the oe of collective and re- tate ible government,” the , Ment points out. i ‘aa any case, the governor- idvien is not bound by the fo, 4 Of the council of state ney eeving undertaken that thee pation (he) is thereafter r 0 act on his discretion’.” Dee Statement goes on to i th Out: “The plan leaves ihe : ; int: pe lonial system virtually | he Un, ee With its chronic mass th pPloyment, which is ‘at Mhisene of the poverty and Y in the colonies, lead- Nigra, a large influx of im- al here ‘(in Britain). ang - proper organization do istribution of the wealth ced, these countries can e Den ately support their peo- Britain faces dilemma over European market LONDON _ Rejecting the proposal for a European common market q customs union, the British government last week put ward a plan for a smaller and more limited one, It The plan is that Britain would enter a mutual free trade area with France, Bel- gium, Italy, West Germany, Holland and Luxembourg and reach it, stage by stage, with them and other West European countries that wished to par- ticipate. Disclosing this when open- ing the debate on Britain’s European free trade policy in the House of Commons. last week, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Harold Macmillan said that within this free area the goods of every member would eventually be admitted duty free. The problem was how. Eur- ope could compete with the two giants, the United States and the Soviet Union, he said. It was impossible for Britain to join the European customs union, as this would harm Commonwealth countries. In- stead, said Macmillan, Britain envisaged this plan as harmon- ising British, European and. Commonwealth needs. “We could not expect coun- tries of the Commonwealth to give preferential treatment to our exports to them if we had to charge them the full duty on their exports to us under the customs union,” he ‘said. Macmillan made it clear, however, that any envisaged project of a free trade area could not be extended to food- stuffs or livestock feeds, in raw or manufactured state, or to liquor or tobacco. “We must remain free to continue to grant to this great volume of imports the pre- ferential arrangements we have built up over the past 25 years,” he said. “This is an essential counterpart to the preferences we enjoy in Com- monwealth markets.” Harold Wilson, speaking for the Labor Opposition, declar- ed: “The chancellor’s way of wooing Europe is first to give the lady a black eye and then come along with fair prom- ises of what he is going to do in 15 years time.” In his opinion, Britain must enter into the negotiations for the free market fully and frankly. “Can we afford to stay out? I am sure the answer is that we cannot. Western Europe represents a market of some- thing like 25 percent of our total exports and rather less than 25 percent of our total imports,” he said. “The real issue is, can we leave this market for German industry to over-run?” Wilson continued. ‘Already ‘their competition is formidable and growing, and we must ask ourselves what would be the position if we had to pay tariffs in this area and they entered this vast market duty free.” Iceland, U.S. in newpact NEW YORK American troops are to re- main in Iceland — but their position will be much more precarious than hitherto, ac- cording to reports here. In the general election last June, the Icelandic people de- feated the government of Pre- mier Olafus Thors and elected a coalition of left-wing parties pledged to secure withdrawal of U.S. troops. Under a _.draft agreement between Iceland and the U.S., the U.S. troops may be turn- ed out at six months’ notice without reference to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This is regarded as a vic- tory for the Icelandic govern- ment and a rebuff to Washing- ton. It is also reported that un- der the draft agreement the U.S. has agreed to give aid estimated at some $30 million to Iceland during the next four months. Talks took place in Iceland, where officials have refused to discuss details of the new draft. In Washington a U.S. State Department official. admitted its existence, but also refused to disclose details. The big U.S. base at Kefla- vik in Iceland is one of the key positions in the ring of U.S. bases abroad. Everyone is suspect in Algeria and Cyprus, as : these pictures show. TOP: A French mobile patrol in Algeria holds up a lone Arab. BOTTOM: A British soldier in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia checks a schoolboy returning from a music lesson with his violin. Scores killed, hundreds jailed in year of British terror in Cyprus LONDON One year ago yesterday the British government declared a state of emergency to crush the people of Cyprus. The year began with tear-gas attacks on Cypriot schoolchildren demonstrating for self-determination for Cyprus and with the arrest without trial of all working class leaders, of the island for the invasion of Egypt. It closed with the use Clashes in Cyprus began months before the declaration of the emergency, the first per- son to be killed being a school- boy shot dead when troops were ordered to fire on a youth demonstration. It was only after such in- cidents, and the sending of British reinforcements to hold down Cyprus, that a group of right- wing Cypriots began their campaign -of armed re- sistance. In one year, 90 Britons have lost their lives in the British government's attempt to crush Cypriot freedom. Right young Cypriots, re- garded by’ the islanders as POWs, have been hanged. An uncounted “number of other Cypriots have been shot by British troops in armed clashes, or shot for failing to answer -challenges (several of those shot were deaf), and some were killed in the sup- pression of demonstrations. Over 600 Cypriots, including the leaders of the Cyprus Working People’s party (AKEL), the island’s largest political party, and many leading trade unionists, are now detained without trial, Many have been held in con- centration camps for nearly a year. The new year of repression in Cyprus has opened with a wider extension of the Emerg- ency Regulations. Under them parents shelt- ering a son, who has taken part in action against British forces may be condemned to death for “consorting with armed bandits” and, on a whole range of new charges, the special emergency courts must now sentence those con- victed to death. British armed forces and police have been given what amount to a carte blanche for any offences they may com- mit in Cyprus “in the course of their duties.” Last week Harding ordered that none of them should be prosecuted “in respect of any offence alleged to have been committed by such person in the course of his duties.” DECEMBER 7, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 3