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  JAGAN                                           STRONG

States intrusion of cold war politics into the affairs of British Guiana.  After the victory of the Castro-led revolution in Cuba, in 1959, these efforts were sharply stepped up by every means that could be brought to bear.  Withholding international loans to the Jagan government; financing internal forces opposing the PPP; pressure on Great Britain to delay the granting of independence; subsidizing and arming groups to disrupt the political and economic life. 
  The "divide and rule" tactic was cynically used as a tool to break the allegiance of the people to the new government. It was a classic pattern of planned disruption. Forbes Burnham, whom both the British and Americans regarded as a safe person, after failing to secure control of the PPP withdrew from it to form a rival party, appealing on purely racial grounds to the African groups who are about 43 per cent of the total population. Every advantage, including changing the electoral system, was given him to help oust the PPP leaders. 
  The CIA was brought into motion. Jagan shows how strikes were engineered against his administration-strikes which led to violence and arson paid for by CIA money in which million of dollars in property were destroyed in 1933. A wave of terror was instituted against East Indians and PPP adherents. Even after this, the PPP was returned to office by popular vote. Eventually, only a ganging up of all the dissident elements, under a formula imposed by the British as the price of independence, allowed this coalition to triumph over the people's choice.
  The PPP, which is preparing for the next general election in Guyana, is concerned with reuniting the working people and ending this division along racial lines, which is contrary to Guyanese tradition and which operates only bot keep imperialism in power.
  Progress in Guyana as in other nations of the Americans depends on escaping the straightjacket imposed by foreign domination. It means change from an economy based solely on the export of raw materials. It demands restructuring of the economy in the interest of the people instead of the big exporters. Drastic land reforms, the nationalization of foreign-owned industries, price controls, and extension of democracy are integral parts of the PPP program.
  The book poses serious problems for the consciences of Americans who have uneasily watched the progress of the war in Vietnam, for it shows how deeply our government is sowing the dragon's teeth of dissention of many countries. Familiarity with this record is part of the

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