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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...
Although President Kennedy has on occasion made polite gestures to Dr. Jagan and his 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...
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...
...Communist, Dr. Jagan...
...Jagan tried to duck the question, but Committee Chairman Sir Henry Wynn Parry insisted on an answer. "If he continues to be silent on the issue," said Parry, "the commission will be forced to take note that the witness has avoided answering this vital question." Enraged, Jagan shouted: "I believe the tenets of Communism to mean 'from each according to his ability and to each according to his need.' And I believe that represents the Communist belief and I accept it." Still angry, he went on to say that he admired Fidel Castro as "the greatest liberator...