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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...
...Court. Not all of Lyttelton's charges were equally convincing. A few, e.g., that the P.P.P. had "sought to undermine the position of ... the Boy Scouts," left some Britons with an uneasy feeling that the government was trying too hard to establish its case. The misgivings vanished last week when the nation got a firsthand look at what its home-grown Reds were calling "the suffering victims of imperialism...
...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...
...first openly pro-Communist government ever to hold office in the British Empire. Last week, after six months of mounting frustration over the colony's Red-created unrest and subversive intrigues, Britain suspended the constitution and sent in troops to guarantee public safety. Said Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton: "Her Majesty's government is not willing to allow a Communist state to be organized within the British Commonwealth...
Outside the courtroom, in the hot Kenya sun, bearded, burly Kenyatta and his five followers were taken into custody once more. In South Nyeri, Mau Mau terrorists had just killed 13 loyal Kikuyu. In London, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton told Laborite critics in the House of Commons that, in Britain's relentless and increasingly successful counter-efforts, 1,300 suspected Mau Maus have been killed...