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...upset, the Socialists ran second in Jamaica and Trinidad. But a nearly unanimous Socialist vote from the Windwards and Leewards gave the Federal Labor Party an overall majority, with 25 seats. Barring shifts of allegiance by F.L.P. members, the legislature seems certain to elect the F.L.P.'s Sir Grantley Adams, 59, an Oxford-educated lawyer, Premier of Barbados, as first Prime Minister of The West Indies...
Probable winner of the election: the mildly socialist West Indies Federal Labor Party, which should win at least 26 of the 45 seats and organize the government. Probable Prime Minister: Oxford-educated Lawyer Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, 59, one of the pioneer federationists and founders of the F.L.P., now Premier of Barbados...
...West Indies, where for 300 years a select "plantocracy" has run the British Commonwealth's third oldest Parliament (after Britain itself and Bermuda). Governor Sir Robert Arundell will hand over part of his remaining powers to Barbados' first Cabinet, bossed by Socialist Prirne Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams...
...Barbados, 166 sq. mi. of sugar cane jampacked with 228,000 people, a population of 1,475 to the square mile. Led by stolid, dour Prime Minister Grantley Adams, 58, a onetime Socialist militant who softened in office. Barbados is the loyal "little Britain" of the islands...
...once they had gathered, island leaders tacitly agreed that federation-which amounts to making a British dominion out of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and the Windward and Leeward Islands-would be meaningless if the bars stayed up. The islands' elder statesman, Barbados' Premier Grantley Herbert Adams, set forth the case for free movement, Trinidadian Labor Minister Albert Gomes offered concessions, and Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley soon brought them into agreement...