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When Dr. Cheddi Jagan. 42. a politically ambitious East Indian dentist, first took power in British Guiana eight years ago, he fluttered the dovecots of empire. Sounding every inch a Marxist. Jagan vowed: "The same bullets which were fired on poor people will be fired on our oppressors." announced that he was forming a "people's police" and abolishing the civil service. In a day when Winston Churchill was still Prime Minister. Britain's reply was to send four warships and 1,600 troops, who ousted Jagan and suspended the brand-new constitution that granted the 147-year...
...ballots were barely counted before Jagan began agitating for an end to the last vestige of British control (foreign affairs, defense) and demanding immediate independence. Domestically, he promised democracy and social reform. Abroad, he said, "we plan to follow a policy of neutralism like Nehru and Nasser.'' No longer shouting about oppressors, bullets or people's police, Jagan said reassuringly: "We also cherish the things the West fights for-personal liberties." The West kept its fingers crossed...
...Cuban attention: Jamaica police who seized the chief of the island's Mau-Mau-like rebel Ras Tafarians reported finding correspondence with Castro officials. Revolution, Castro's newspaper mouthpiece, devoted a 40-page supplement to calling Puerto Rico "a slave territory of America." Communist-lining Cheddi Jagan, a political power in British Guiana, got a red-carpet welcome in Havana...
Governor Renison apparently hopes that Jagan in power will either mature or fail badly enough to break his spellbinding hold on the voters. The British do not doubt that Jagan is as Red as ever, but the line he now talks is quite different from 1953, when he promised to shoot the "oppressors." This time he shows more practical concern with the colony's huge problems-poor soil, soggy terrain, and torrid climate. He preaches cooperation with the Crown and with the firms controlling British Guiana's sugar and bauxite industries...
...Jagan gets out of control, the constitution, revised after the 1953 fiasco, gives the governor enough power to tame him. Though the new Cabinet is controlled 5 to 4 by Jaganites, the governor himself hangs onto the title of President and can cast a vote. As for the Legislative Council, the governor could, if necessary, appoint enough new members to gain a pro-British majority. In a deeper crisis, he could invoke emergency powers and assume direct control...