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When British Guiana's far-leftist Premier Cheddi Jagan called on President Kennedy last fall, asking for $60 million he didn't get, he represented himself as a neutralist-type democrat who believes in friendship with both East and West. Last week Jagan faced a three-man commission sent by London to investigate last February's anti-Jagan riots in the British colony perched on South America's northeast coast. The commission's report may well affect Britain's decision on whether it should grant independence this year, and whether Jagan...
...first time Cheddi Jagan, 43, the East Indian dentist-turned-politician, won the prime ministership of British Guiana in 1953, his aggressive Marxism and strident anti-imperialism so outraged Her Majesty's government that 1,600 British troops landed in Georgetown to throw him out of office. Now, still breathing defiance of imperialism, Jagan is Prime Minister again, and last week had to call on British tommies for help-to save him from mobs roaming the streets calling for Cheddi Jagan's hide...
...When Dr. Cheddi Jagan. 42. a politically ambitious East Indian dentist, first took power in British Guiana eight years ago, he fluttered the dovecots of empire. Sounding every inch a Marxist. Jagan vowed: "The same bullets which were fired on poor people will be fired on our oppressors." announced that he was forming a "people's police" and abolishing the civil service. In a day when Winston Churchill was still Prime Minister. Britain's reply was to send four warships and 1,600 troops, who ousted Jagan and suspended the brand-new constitution that granted the 147-year...
...small for Cuban attention: Jamaica police who seized the chief of the island's Mau-Mau-like rebel Ras Tafarians reported finding correspondence with Castro officials. Revolution, Castro's newspaper mouthpiece, devoted a 40-page supplement to calling Puerto Rico "a slave territory of America." Communist-lining Cheddi Jagan, a political power in British Guiana, got a red-carpet welcome in Havana...
...Communism's most direct and successful grab for power in South America, a dentist named Cheddi B. Jagan won an election and took office four years ago in British Guiana. Britain's embarrassed answer then was a task force of three warships and 700 troops to depose him. Last week, after the Northwestern University-educated dentist swept another election (TIME, Aug. 12), a wiser, gentler Britain tried a subtler answer-dumping the difficult problems of running the poverty-stricken little colony directly into Cheddi Jagan...