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MARXIST penunuoo "There is another aspect of communism--s Christ communism." ALL INFORMATION CONTAINEC popular vote, divided chiey on racial lines, was close, but Jagan won 20 of the legislature's 35 seats and the premiership. Jagan visited President Kennedy last October and asked for 67c Joans to help British Cuiana develop state-owned industries and open its vastupused lands for farming.The colony today lives by exporting sugarcontrolled by the British-owned Booker Croup, and bauxite, which is extracted chiefy by Aluminium Limited and Reynolds Met- als. Both sugar and bauxite are in overaupply in the worid market. About 18 per cent of the colony's Iabor force ia unemployed, and the government has virtually exhausted its cash reserves Jagan left Washington, as he says, without s single penny.The Administration would promise only to wend a mission to study his economic plans. This study was finished in June. "I was mad s hell," he says of his Washington visit. "I have been surveyed to death." In February, Jagan's efforts to raise funds by taxing his own people--and racial tension continually stirred by Negro leaders-- crupted into riots. Twenty thousand people demonstrated and de. stroyed property in Georgetown. The police killed several, and Jagan himself had to call for the British Army. At the same time, trouble broke out in Jagan's party, threatening his government. In mid-June, he threw Balram Singh Rai his able, relatively moderate Home Af fairs Minister, out of the cabinet and the party,thereby weakening his majority in the legislature.. Bchind the U. S. delay in aiding British Guiana was fear that Jagan, once the colony gained its independence, would slip into the Communist bloc. Jagansays candidly that he is a Marxist, but denies vehemently that be is controlled by the intermational Communist movement. He says, "I am a Socialist. I believe people must own the mcans of production. I don't soe much sense in foreign investment eoming in and making 20 per cent profit." He soes British Guiana becoming a Marrist modelfor the world. Ho has atarted a program by which farmers Iease land for 25 years a! nomina! rents, but do not own the land individually.He has arranged to buy the Canadian-owned power company. He has begun to take over the church schooh, which until recently have formed the colony'? only educational system. He has twice visited Castro and made a deal to sell Cuba rice. He has arranged for scholarships to Moscow, one of which was turned down by his 17-year-old niece Rita, who wants to be a radiologist. (The U. S. had none to ofer her.) He has obtained offers from Poland, East Cermany and Czechoslovakia to build fac tories snd from Cuba to build a hydroelectric complex. Says Jagan, "It is a revolution--not a bloody revolution. To l. change the plantation system to a cooperative one is revolutionary." He believes that economic socialism can be joined with political democracy. He points out that he gained power legitimately: "Our in- tentions are very clear. We intend to have elections. We intend to fol Jow the rules prescribed by democracy. But you can be democratic and not a capitalist. Capitalism is not synoaymous with demotracy." that we will not allow our country to be used as a military base for one side against the other. We want economic assistance, technical assist. ance from anywhere. If Nehru accepts aid from both sidesno one objects about that. I don't see tlt America can have a double stand- ard: one fos Nchru aad one for me. I don't want to be dominated by anyone- cither bioc--but I have to solve my problems."