Word: guianas
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...British Guiana...
...Communist Party's No. 2 man. Waldeck Rochet, wearing metal-rimmed spectacles and a funereal suit, warned of the evils of Gaullist capitalism and of the military alliance with "vengeful" West Germany. Senate President Gaston Monnerville, a Negro born in French Guiana, spoke in the name of the Radical Party, argued legalistically that De Gaulle had violated the constitution and that his resignation threat, if he did not get an impressive yes vote, changed the referendum from a "consultation to a summons...
...great pressure from the United States to enforce some kind of economic blockade of Cuba, has become increasingly concerned about Dr. Jagan's trade relations with the Castro regime. And it does not look as if the British government is in any hurry to grant independence to a neutralist Guiana...
...does not seem to have requested aid from the Soviet bloc countries. This does not mean, however that such aid has not been available. East Germany offered last spring to build ten factories, for example, and recently Soviet geologists discovered extensive oil fields in British Guiana--fields which similar American and British experts completely missed...
...this indicates that if the West doesn't come across soon with substantial capital loans, British Guiana may be driven from its present position of neutralism into much closer alignment with the Soviet nations. Dr. Jagan professes to believe in political democracy, even if he is a socialist in his economic orientation. Geographically and historically British Guiana identifies with the West. It would be unfortunate, then, if Dr. Jagan felt that economic necessity was forcing him into close alliance with Russian and Chinese Communism...