EXPELS | TWO TOP LEADERS
- TOKYO =~ The Japanese Communist party expelled two of its top leaders, Y, Shiga and I, Suzuki, May 21, because of their public position in support of the Mo sc ow treaty banning the testing of nuclear devices in the atmosphere, .
The two leaders were members of the inner grouping of the Central Executive Committee and are well-known members of parliament. Their support of a Khrushchevist line was intolerable to a leadership committed to Peking.
The rightist majority of the Socialist party hailed Shiga's action in voting for the test-ban treaty, The leftist minority in the same party is opposed to the treaty, in accordance with its sympathy for Peking, but in casting its votes adhered to the disci-~ pline of the majority.
It is quite clear that the deepening rift over the test-ban treaty foreshadows two antinuclear weapons congresses next August, Soviet delegates will probably attend the congress sponsored by the
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Socialist party; Chinese delegates will attend the one sponsored by the Communist. party. The left wing of thé. Socialist. party, finding itself in.a difficult situation, will probably. Poyeott the congress organized by their own. party.
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