Jagan’s Policy To Be Neutralism

Press, Volume C, Issue 29602, 26 August 1961, Page 11

Jagan’s Policy To Be Neutralism

(N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) l GEORGETOWN (British Guiana), August 25. Dr. Cheddi Jagan, who is expected to form the new British Guiana Government, said yesterday that he would follow a policy of neutralism “as advocated by Ghana and India.”

He said that his People’s Progressive Party, which won Monday’s General Election. was not, a Communist party. Dr. Jagan forecast that he

would form a new Government in “two or three weeks” and he indicated that he thought British Guiana would achieve independence by May 31 next year.

He called for “large sums of money ... a big push” from the United States at low interest and long repayment terms. He estimated the country’s immediate financial needs as about £2OO million.

Asked if he would accept loans from the Soviet Union at 2 per cent., Dr. Jagan said: “As long as no strings are attached, we will get it from anywhere." Yesterday, Moscow Radio said the election had brought “complete victory for the forces of the Left in British Guiana."

It said “the British bayonets could not bar for long the people of Guiana from the road of freedom.”