Word: guianas
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...starker imperialism. Cominform agents were infiltrating Sold Coast trade unions. Nkrumah, who got his education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, has borrowed ideas from Marx as well as from Jefferson (TIME, Feb. 9). He consulted his British advisers. They reminded him of what happened last month in British Guiana, carefully leaving the impression that a Communist movement in the Gold Coast would jeopardize the colony's demand for dominion status. Nkrumah thereupon suspended
...House of Commons, ancient Mother of Parliaments, last week debated the government's right to take back the democratic rights it conferred only five months before on the South American colony of British Guiana...
Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton defended his action in rushing warships and troops to Guiana to prevent a Communist coup (TIME, Oct. 19). Lyttelton accused the Guiana People's Progressive Party of 1) seeking to establish a one-party Communist state, 2) spreading racial hatred. He cited evidence that Dr. Cheddi Jagan, the East Indian dentist whom Lyttelton deposed from his post as Prime Minister, had conspired to organize a Red "People's Police.'' Two of Jagan's Cabinet ministers and his American wife Janet, a former Young Communist who became the deputy speaker...
...pair were met at London Airport by a bunch of British Communists, but before they could mount a soapbox, Scotland Yard whisked them away to a private office on the Opposition side of the House of Commons. Clement Attlee, whose government had prepared the way for self-government in Guiana, had urgent questions to ask. He had been disturbed by Lyttelton's handling of other colonial revolts (in Kenya and Nyasa-land), and wanted to make sure that the two Guianans got their day in court...
When the British quashed an allegedly planned Communist coup in Guiana by suspending the colony's constitution and dismissing its top government ministers, they presumably were acting on behalf of western democracy. They reasoned that even such repugnant measures were preferable to the formation of a Communist haven in the West...