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...verbal powder and smoke of the present Cuban crisis, it is fairly easy to forget about the tiny South American country on the Caribbean coast whose people have elected, by conventional parliamentary procedure, an avowed Marxist as their prime minister. Under the leadership of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana has been attempting since 1953 to pursue a policy of gradual socialism in the domestic sphere and a policy of neutralism abroad...
...government, no proposals regarding foreign aid or technical assistance have as yet emerged from State Department channels. In his interview last spring with Alexei Adzhubie, editor of Izvestia, the President emphasized that America had no bone to pick with a democratically elected Marxist regime such as that of British Guiana. Yet all appeals of Dr. Jagan for technical development loans from the United States have come to no avail...
Indeed, British Guiana has been hard pressed of late in its attempts to secure financial assistance from Western sources. While the British government offered some aid, it was not nearly enough for any visible industrial development. And although the World Bank has offered a small capital loan of B.W.I. $2.25 million, this could only be used for credit to private individuals or cooperative societies for development in the areas of agriculture, forestry, and fishing. To a country like British Guiana, which is hoping to industrialize as rapidly as possible and needs capital to do this, agricultural loans must seem...
When all these attempts to obtain financial assistance failed, Jagan's government resorted to the austerity measures that provoked the Georgetown rioting last February. The incident prompted the British government to postpone indefinitely final independence for British Guiana--something Britain has been promising since it first granted the country self-government...
...executive. And though De Gaulle has described a strong presidency as an eventual "influence of continuity," his blueprint contains no provision for vice-presidential succession in an emergency. If De Gaulle were to die tomorrow, the office would go to Senate President Gaston Monnerville, an undistinguished politician from French Guiana...