The Financial Times of 4th July carried an article by one of its corr espaients who had recently been in British Guiana under the title "More Muddle than Malice." Giving a picture of the situation there, and then outlining sone of developments which have taken place since 1955, it goes on to says
",.But then Dx. Jagan has got his political ideas muddled. While he would be 2 Gonrunist to the satisfaction of, say, the John Birch Society, it would bo more accurate to describe his political attitude as something of a platonic love affair with Marxism. This love affair is inconsistent and fitful and does not affect his realisation that he is wedded to a free enterprise system and that it is in the interests of his country to keep the marriage off the TOCKSs
",...Though he breathes fire about "occupying the cormianding heights of the economy," and may well omotionally aspire to such eminence, his conduct hes not been extremist. He has allowed the large expatriate companies to cultiv— ate friendly relations with hin. In a statement prepared in consultation with the recent trade mission to the Colony headed by Lord Kootes, Dr. Jagan abjured expropriation as a policy and stated that "it is »eenot our intention to nationalise the bauxite and sugar industries." the article ends by giving this advice’
"T+ seems that the wisest policy for the Western countries then is for thom not to lose their nerve. The prudent thing would be to increase rather tha reduce aid to a country which, in spite of Dr. Jagan's ill-considered praise of Castro, is still far from being a "Red Hell" or a Soviet satellite.
"There is wind of a U.K.-U.S. World Bank aid consortiumand before long the country should be getting a flow of friendly foreign adninistrators and technicians. Such help cannot come a day too soon. In return Dr. Jagan could be expected to stop Hounderings of his politicians on the subject of the "class Ware He could also make clearer his rejection of those sections of Marxism-Leninism that those who know him are confident he abhors."