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ever you call him.Dr.Jagan is a sincere nationalist who believes ho is destined to lead his country, to the betterment of his people."' There are three forces that could infuence Clueddi Jagan. One is the pragmatic need to soive his economic problems after independ- ence. A second is the Indian population itself, which, since malaria was wiped out in 1949, has been growing rapidly. Increasingly, the Indians are rice farmers and new Water Street businessmen struggling for middle-class status. The third force is the United States and Great. Britain. In May, Sir Jock Cambel, chairman of the Booker Group, Premier Chrudi Jagan talks wish wives of cane culle echoed Jagan's pleas that the British give the colony more help. plansation un thc wess bank of the Demcrura River U. S. efforts to infuence Jagan have been marred by a series of blunders. We have vacillated on aid, excrpt for about $I.3 million Fowkr Hamilton. chiei of the U. S. foreign-aid program, who in technical assislance. While Jagan was climbing to power, the met with Jagan in Washington, says, "The fact that a government is Eisenhower Administration closed our consulate for four years, building a Socialist economy does not exclude it from aid. The stand- Ieaving ouly a team of chicken-breeding specialists from the Uni-. ard is independence, not scquiescence to our view.". versity of Maryland. For two years, until Iast winter, tbe USIA When Jagan is asked if he is a Communist, he always answers had no full-time representative in the colony. When Jagan admired. with a question: What do you mean by Communist? During last Adlai Stevenson's UN speech on Angola last year, his rare desire year's campaign, Jagan wrote: "The difference lntween socialism and to praise the U. S. was frustrated because his request for a copy communism is that in socialism there are still not enough goods pro- was lost in red lape duced. .. . Soeialists have Irarned from exerience that if they are to The dlilemma Jagan presents to us is one of the toughest ques. pass from the Socialist stage-from each according to his ability, to tions we face:How do we deal with the kftist, neutraliI new nations? rach according to his work-to the higher stage-from each arcord- If we help Jagan, we help build a Marxist state in South America. If. ing lo lis athitty, lo each arcording to his need--then production mmust. Sny maq mo o my end nmeme my am om b tremendously increasd. Jayan concludes, "Peopie talk of com Jagan's tragedy is that he might have found other answers, if he munism and think of guns.But there is another aspect of communism had not become convinced--in Chicago, Washington and New York-- Christ communism-sharing with others,real eguality." that our way was not his. At the heart of our problem today is our Washington oflictats wonder whelher Jagan is "a Communist willingness to gamble that a leader like Cheddi Jagan can be salvaged. Says Everett Melby, the top American officia! in British Guians, "Il. ing to lead his people out of despair and poverty. The British goy. you don't accept thst, the battle is Iost before you begin.'? END