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Economy:
Tax Cut Talk

President Kennedy pledged
anew on Friday his determine
tiOn TO seek a cut In personal
and corporate income taxes next
year and added a promise TO
hold down Federal spending.
Earlier in the year President
Kennedy said he would recon-
mend an cross-the-board income
tax reduction for individuals and
corporations, retroactive TO jan
uary /. 1868.
Accordingly. when the President
discussed taxes before the Eco
nomic Club OF New York on Friday
his declaration that cuts In income
leyies and tax reforms were vital
10 the growth OF the national
economy came as no surprise.
What the President did not say
created most Of the interest. He
gave no real hint as 10 how big a
cut he would recommend. Nor did
he repeat his former promise that
II would be retroactive 10 next
January /.
There was immediate speculation
that his talk with Chairman Mills
OF the House Ways and Means
Committee on Wednesday may
have led him TO a compromise on
the effective date for a cut. AT any
rate, Mr.. Mills, a man who will
have a good deal 10 say about what
Congress does with Mr.. Kennedy's
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Stevenson:
Durable Row

Life Magazine said last week
that President Kennedy person.
ally opened Government files to
the authors Of the Saturday
Evening Post article telling Of
Adlai Stevenson's role in the
Cuban crisis. Mr.. Kennedy de-
pied doing so and said the entire
matter should be left TO the
historians.
The Stevenson affair-the re-
markable controversy over the
role the controversial American
Ambassador to the United Ma
tions. Adlai E. Stevenson, played
in Cuban crisis policy decisions,
has proved to be more durable
than the usual high-level WASH
ington political tempest.
President Kennedy tried the
week before last TO put the mat
ter to rest. He released a personal
letter to Mr.. Stevenson assuring
the Ambassador and former
Democratic presidential candidate
that he had continuing conf
dence in him. The reason for this
expression was a magazine article
which encouraged the idea that
Mr.. Stevenson advocated a soft
line on dealing with the Soviet
Union In the Cuban missile crisis,
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On Spending

In line with his promise to keep
spending down, the President said
that all budget items except de-
fense, space and the interest on
the national debt would be held
TO approximately this years level
in the fiscal 1864 budget TO be
presented to Congress next month.
Mr.. Kennedy. the master poll
tician. could not help engaging
in a bit of politics while he was
at 1t. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.
the Republican most observers
believe will challenge the Presi-
dent for the White House in 1864.
recently criticized the economic
policies OF the administration and
pointed TO what he called the
substantial progress he has helped
bring about in New York State.
On Friday, Mr.. Kennedy twitted
the Governor - though not by
name. He observed that the rate
OF insured unemployment In New
York has been consistently higher
than the national average and
that increases In personal income
and employment have been slower
there than In the Nation as a
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Many Changes

Although all the pertinent facts
had not been laid on the table
nor are they even now available
TO the public-the President al
most had his way. Then Life
Magazine In an article from It's
Washington bureau chief. John
l.. Steele, % took issue with the
allegations against Mr.. Stevenson
and 90 declared that Mr.. Ken
nedy himself had given the green
light for the Post authors TO write
an article on the Cuban crisis. Mr..
Steele wrote:
For weeks II was widely known
In Washington that the President.
specifically and directly, had
charged (Charles) Bartlett. an
old and intimate friend who is
Capital correspondent for the
Chattanooga Times, 10 help pre-
pare a semi-official chronology
Of the events Of the october
crisis. go.
Thereafter. on White House
orders, the doors Of the State De-
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make things easier for Cuba It
self. The Soviet Union acted diff
ferently. 1t not only exposed the
imperialist m aneuvers Of the
United States against revolution
airy Cuba, but 1t sent its weapons
to Cuba. 1t sent its men, who
were ready to give their lives in
struggle in defense Of Cuba. And
when a threat loomed over Cuba,
our men received orders to defend
Cuba against invasion, to fight
together with the Cubans, togeth-
er with the Cuban people, to
stand firm to the very death.
We have genuinely fraternal
feelings, fraternal relations. fra
ternal solidarity. That was, of
course, a critical time and the
United States Government under
stood the possible development Of
events; it understood that If its
forces had spanked off the fire of
war in Cuba and both Cuban and
Soviet people in Cuba were burned
in that fire, then no force could
have restrained the Soviet Union
from delivering a crushing retail
atory blow. That is why, at the
decisive moment of the crisis, rea-
son was shown by the United
States Government.
Proposing mutually acceptable
solutions, we took into account
all undertakings and war was
averted. Today we say to our crit
les: your reproaches are praise
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tax cut-tax reform proposals, has
indicated that he sees no reason
for a speedy reduction in levies.
The President, in speaking before
an audience made up largely of
fiscal conservatives, stressed his
administrations economic credo.
1t is this: Only through full en-
ployment can we balance the
budget and tax reduction can help
us obtain this full employment.
He acknowledged that the early
effects of a tax cut would be to
increase the national debt, but
said he had ordered tight new ex-
penditure controls within his ad-
ministration and drew cheers when
he added:
IF Government is to retain
the confidence of the people, it
must not spend a penny more
than can be justified on grounds
Of national need and spent with
maximum efficiency"
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plans call for a total of 800
Minutemen.
Minuteman. like Polaris, is a
so-called "push-button" rocket. 1t
can be fired within is seconds.
And like Polaris, it has a war
head Of approximately half a meg
aton-the explosive power equi-
valent of 100000 tons of TINT.
This is considerably smaller than
the warheads carried by the
larger. longer-ranged liquid-fuel
Aliases and Titans.
According to the Pentagon, the
three-stage Minuteman's range is
rated at $500 miles. 1t has never
yet been fired that distance, how
ever. The longest test shot is be-
lieved to have Travelled between
1000 and 4.500 miles-far enough
to reach many targets in the
USSR.
O. With 20 Minuteman, America
now has over 800 eombat-ready
strategic rockets. There are ap-
proximately $50 Aliases and IT,
tans operational and l44 Polarises
at sea aboard nuclear submarines.
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Canada's BaffIinq
NucIear Policies

Falcons used by the USAF are
nuclear- headed, thus ensuring
that when an enemy bomber is
hit, its nuclear payload also will
be destroyed. The Falcons used
by the RCAF have conventional
high explosive warheads. They are
much less certain to kill" an
intruding bomber, and such a kill
would not destroy the bomber's
payload. Russian N-bombs.
equipped with the dead mans
fuse" would explode on whatever
happened to be underneath the
stricken bomber.
1t was because Of this that a
Canadian official commented that
if the Russians had attacked dur
ing the Cuban crisis, it would
have been in Canada's interest to
keep the RCAF grounded.
But the Canadians not only
we're not nuclear armed when the
threat Of war blew up over Cuba;
their government even refused to
allow USAF squadrons with nu-
clear arms to move into advanced
positions at Canadian bases, or
to permit USAF squadrons at
USAF bases in Newfoundland and
Labrador to arm with nuclear
warheads.
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mean to make these two great
world powers clash2 This means
to evoke a world thermonuclear
war. 1t is interesting how they
themselves would behave in such
a war. I do not think that they
would wish to take part In 1t.
They, it seems, would prefer to
sit 1t out.
But then the question arises:
What do they want2 Do they
really want the peoples Of the
Soviet Union, Cuba and other So
cialiSt countries to shed their
blood? The Albanian leaders, If
one judges by their statements,
are obviously dissatisfied with the
liquidation of the crisis involving
Cuba. They call the solution at
tained a retreat, and some are
even going as far as to say that
allegedly the Soviet Union capitu-
lated to imperialism. One may
ask: In what respect have we re-
treated?
Socialist Cuba exists. Cuba re-
mains a beacon of Marxist-Len-
mist ideas in the Western Hemi-
sphere. The force of its revolu-
tionary example will grow. The
United States Government took
upon itself on behalf of its coun-
try the pledge not to invade Cuba.
The threat of a thermonuclear
war has been averted. Is this real
ly our retreat?
The critics Of the peaceful set
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Space:
Venus Feat

The Mariner-2 spacecraft, In
an historic feat, flew by Venus
on Friday and sent back to
earth data on temperature con-
ditions on the planet.
The Relay experimental COM
munications satellite was sue
cesSfully Orbited Thursday, but
battery trouble barred early
tests.
One hundred and nine days
ago last Friday, a 447-pound
spacecraft called Mariner-2 was
rocketed off a pad at Cape Canav-
eral. Fla, on one OF the most
ambitious Journeys into the
heavens ever undertaken by a
man-made device.
It's goal: To skirt the planet
Venus - within $4,000 miles, and
measure the temperature OF It's
surface and the atmosphere
which surrounds II.
Early on the day before yes
terday, Mariner-2. after a i80-
million-mile flight which provided
more thrills than a movie serial,
fulfilled the fondeSt hopes Of It's
scientific and engineering creators.
II passed within 2i,ll8 miles OF
the cloud-coyered planet and sent
back, right on schedule, from a
distance Of 36 million miles, the
desired information. Mariner 2
then proceeded into an eternal
orbit OF the sun.
There was drama and doubt be-
fore the historic achievement was
concluded. however. Two instru.
ments designed 10 measure Venus
temperature failed TO respond 10
two separate automatic commands
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partment and the Central Intel
ligence Agency were thrown open
to the two reporters" The last
was a reference to Stewart Alsop.
The Stevenson affair definitely
was alive and kicking.
The New York Times earlier
had said flatly that the President
had suggested to Mr.. Bartlett
that he write a story-not spe-
officially the one that was written
ON the Cuban showdown.
On Wednesday, the President
was questioned closely on the
subject at his news conference.
He declined to characterize the
Post story as to its accuracy or
the Post authors as to whether
he considered them "irrespon-
sible."
But he called untrue" the Life
assertions that the White House
had suggested the article in the
Saturday Evening Post and that
the White House had made mem
bers of the National Security
Council available" to Messrs.
Bartlett and Alsop.
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tlement Of the conflict say that,
allegedly, the United States can
not be taken at its word, that
history knows quite a few exam
Piles when agreements were bro
ken. Yes. history knows such ex-
amples, but If one were to pro-
ceed from this alone, then one
would have to admit that man.
kind now has no other prospect
than that of mutual annihilation.
To maintain this means taking,
willy-nilly, the path of militar-
ism, regarding war as the only
method of settling controversial
questions.
Is War Necessary?
Is it really necessary for the
international controversial ques-
tions to be settled by means of
war, and not by means of nego-
tiations? No, it is madness to
preach that controversial ques-
tions among states should be set
tied by war, madness which can
bring nothing but suffering and
calamity to the people; it has
nothing in common with the
teachings Of Marx and Lenin; it
is tantamount to rejecting the
significance of international
agreements and treaties and the
principle of peaceful coexistence.
There are sensible norms of in
ternational relations and we must
strengthen, not undermine, them.
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Controversial problems are not
settled by abuse. Basing them
selves on the fact that the ma
ture of imperialism has not
changed, some say that it must
be unmaSked and abused. OF
course, imperialism must be un-
masked, for it is an evil for the
peoples of the world. But by sim
ply pouring abuse-however justi-
fied-on Imperialism, one cannot
weaken 1t.
1t is true, of course, that the
nature of imperialism has not
changed. But today Imperialism
is not the same as in the days
when it undoubtedly ruled the
world. If it is now a paper tiger,
those who speak thusly know that
this paper tiger has nuclear teeth.
1t still can use them, and one
cannot treat it lightheartedly. In
relations with the imperialist
countries it is possible to accept
mutual compromises, and, on the
other hand, have all the means
necessary in order to crush the
aggressors If they unleash a war.
Noisy Statements
When difficult conditions
emerged from Cuba, some people
limited themselves to insults. But
the imperialist forces did not be-
come weaker because of noisy
statements, and these did hardly
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Reossessins Ally

This situation has caused the
United States to reaSsess its Ca
madam ally, has shaken the
NORAD Joint defense agreement,
and has jeopardized the defense
production sharing agreement un-
der which Canada is selling the
United States about 5000 million
worth OF military equipment q
year.
Canada made another commit
ment in 1859 when II agreed TO
undertake a strike-reconnaissance
role with its air division in
Europe. Accordingly RCAF squad
rons in Europe are being re-
equipped with F-l04G aircraft for
carrying tactical nuclear weapons.
For these squadrons TO take their
place in the front line OF NATO
defenses by May /. as scheduled,
the Canadian government had 10
agree by November 10 accept
nuclear arms for them.
This deadline passed without
such decision. Consequently west
ern European countries have had
TO FIJI the defense gap left by
Canada's reneRing on It's 1853
agreement. They are ANNOYED
and not least by the holier-than-
thou image OF a Canada abb
staining from nuclear weapons.
The Canadian attitude. II has
been noted, is 1870 degrees from
that OF mother country. Great
Britain, which is fighting TO MAIN
tain It's independent nuclear strike
force.
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The Leak

The President mas Deen widely
criticized for not announcing an
investigation TO determine who
leaked" NSC secret discussions.
On Wednesday, he said he was
satisfied that no member Of the
NSC was the source for the Posts
statement or Interpretation OF
Mr.. Stevenson's position on a
course OF action in the Cuban
crisis.
but this declaration by the
President left room for further
speculation. Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy, the Presi-
dents brother; former Secretary
OF State Dean Acheson; John A.
McCone, Director Of Central Intel
ligence; Gen. Maxwell d. Taylor.
Chairman OF the Joint Chiefs Of
Staff. and John J. McCloy. sat in
on all or part OF the secret council
discussion although none OF them
is a member OF the NSCJ
Mr.. Kennedy, at the same time,
indicated strongly that he
planned no all-out investigation
10 nail down the source.
"As you know" he told a re-
porter. these matters never
or very seldom are ever really de-
termined with precision"
Then, after having said that the
matter should "be left TO histor-
ians," he spoke what he doubtless
hopes may be his last words on
the Stevenson affair. In a some
what philosophical mood, he said.
THE Presidency is not a very
good place TO make new friends.
/ am trying TO keep my old
friends But I am responsible for
many things under the Constitu-
ton, but not for what they write
That is their responsibility and
that is the way we will continue
IT,"
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Khrushchevs Explanation Of His Decision on Cub;

The following are excerpts
from Premier KhruShchev's
speech on foreign policy given
to the Supreme Soviet on
Wednesday in Moscow. These
portions deal with his defense of
his Cuban policy in the face of
sharp attacks from "dOgmatists"
in China and Albania.
Comrade deputies, it must be
said that during the period of the
peaceful settlement of the conflict
in the Caribbean area, hysterical
and dissatisfied voices resounded
also from another corner, from
people who even called them
selves Marxist-Leninists, although
their actions have nothing in COM
mon with Marxism-Leninism.
have In mind in particular the
Albanian leaders. Their criticism
of the Soviet Union in essence
Joined up with the criticism ema-
mating from the most reactionary
and belligerent circles of the West.
Why is it precisely the Albanian
leaders who now are shouting more
loudly than anyone else?
I would like to recount an in
cident concerning this from my
own life. I spent my childhood and
youth in the pits. If Gorky went
through the university of life, then
was educated in the miners uni
versity. For a working man this
was also a kind of Cambridge, a
university for the deprived people
of Russia. My father happened to
be there and I passed through
this university in childhood and
youth. I remember that in the
miners settlements foul ul-mouthed
scoundrels used to do this: They
would say to such little boy:
land repeat these words to her.
Here are three kopecks for you
for this. Afterwards we'll give you
five"
And then this little boy would
go along beneath the windows of
the houses and run around to his
mother and repeat the curses to
her, the foul words. For these foul
mouthed men this was a sort Of
Cheater. And the Albanian leaders
act in the manner Of such sense
less little boys. Somebody has
taught them to say vile words.
They are going along beneath the
windows and shouting hooligan
curses at the Communist Party.
Soviet Union: and this, after all,
Is their mother. They receive the
promised three kopecks for their
foul language. When they begin
then to swear more strongly and
pictureSquely, they are given a
FLYER and they are praised.
Push Toword Conflict
What do these people who call
themselves Marxists Leninists
want then? Why do they fight
essentially for the same thing as
does Adenauer. that is, push to-
ward conflict. toward the ag-
gravation of the international
situation? 1t may truly be said:
If you go to the left, you will
come out on the right. For If you
look effectively at things, in this
case, during the period of the
crisis involving Cuba, they acted
simply like people provoking a
conflict. They wanted to make
the Soviet Union clash with the
. United States. But what does it
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those wish to push history toward
the unleaShing or war and to solve
the question on the victory Of
communism or capitalism by
means of war, by means Of the
annihilation of millions upon mil
lions of people. 1t would seem
that these people adhere to dia-
metrically opposed directions in
their thinking but, in fact, they
are close to each other.
Some people, repeating the cor
rect tenets of the statement Of
the conference Of the Communist
and Workers parties, put one-sid-
ed emphasis only on the dangers
of revisionism, and, whether to the
point or not, they name Yugoslav
revisionism. But 1t is necessary
to look on things in a concrete
manner. In the crisis which he
experienced over Cuba, Yugoslav
Communists occupied correct po-
sition and the dogmatists who
make themselves out to be true
Marxists-Leninists occupied a pro-
vocative position. One therefore
cannot repeat a once written
proposition and understand 1t uni
laterally without Marxist
analysis.
The Cuban Crisis
The crisis over Cuba showed pre-
cisely that those were most dan
gerous who stood and stand on a
position of dogmatism. The con-
temporary leftwing opportunists
and sectarians, whose most out
spoken mouthpiece are the Alban-
ian leaders, disguise their struggle
against Lenins policy of peace and
peaceful coexistence by loud and
pseudo Revolutionary phrases. AS
has already been stated, they slid
down to a Trotskyite position. 1t
is not difficult to see that such
a policy undermineS the unity Of
forces coming out against impe-
rialiSm. 1t plays into the hands Of
the most aggressive imperialist
circles, the Western powers, and
fans their Communist inten-
tions. Such dogmatic leftist pol
icy IVES worthily appraised at the
congresses of Com unist and
Workers parties of Bulgaria, Hun
gary, CzechoSlovakia, and Italy.
Representatives of fraternal par
ties, in their speeches at these
congresses, unmasked and sharply
condemned this provocative policy.
If the leftist shouters and dog
matistS are given a good scratch
it will be easy to see that at the
basis of their demonstrative valor
there is nothing but fear of i'm
perialiSm, disbelief in the posi-
bility of conquering the capitalist
order in peaceful economic compe-
ton. This is precisely the char
acteristic trait of petty bourgeois
instability and wavering which was
so mercilessly unmasked and de-
rided by Vladimir Ilich Lenin. He
said outright to such shouters:
You are tools of imperialist provo
cation by your objective role, and
your subjective psychology is the
psychology of a petty bourgeois
who busters and brags but feels
very we'll that the proletarian is
right! How sharp and accurate
this statement of Vladimir Ilich's
is, it is as If he had in mind
the present leftist shouters from
Albania!
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The Worlds Opinion

II is very easy in the world 10
live by the opinion Of the world.
II is very easy In solitude 10 be
Self-centered. But the finished
man is he who In the midst OF the
crowd keeps with perfect sweet
ness the independence Of solitude,
/ knew a man Of simple habits and
earnest character who never put
out his hand nor opened his lips
10 court the public. and having
survived several rotton reputa-
tions Of younger men, honor came
at last and sat down with him
upon his private bench from
which he had never stirred
Ralph Waldo Emerson in Journals.
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THE NATIONAL SCENE

whole. Then the President jabbed
the needle harder:
You have seen," he told the
club members, the tragedy of
chronically depressed areas up
state, of unemployed young people
roaming the streets of New York,
Of thousands forced to go on
relief"
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A First

Be that as 1t may, the sounds
could not have been sweeter to the
ears Of James E. Webb, head of
the National Aeronautics and
SDace Administration. The jubi-
liant Mr.. Webb called the Mariner
feat an outstanding first in
space for this country and for
the free world"
Another NASA space shot last
week achieved somewhat less Of
a success. After sending the
Relay experimental communica-
tions satellite into a successful
earth-orbit on Thursday. low
battery voltage blocked early COM
munications tests.
Officials maintained hope. how
ever, that the voltage would build
up and that tests Of television,
radio, telephone and teletype be-
tween the United States and
Europe still might be conducted.
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to our government, to our party,
to our people, praise to all Marx
ist-Leninist parties standing on
the positions Of the 1860 state
ment of the 81 parties upholding
the ideas Of peaceful coexistence
of states with different social and
political systems. ...
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Forces Of Imperialism

So it happens that, on the one
hand, the aggressive, adventuriSt
forces Of Imperialism, the so-called
mad ones who have lost hope that
capitalism will survive in peace
full competition with socialism, are
striving by all possible means
toward the unleashing Of a war,
and, on the other hand, people who
call themselves MarxistS-Leninists
but who in fact are dogmatic and
do not believe in the possibility
of the victory Of socialism and
communism under the conditions
of peaceful coexistence with capi-
talism are trying to push events
in the same direction. Both Of