BRITISH GUIANA: Giving the Reds a Chance

In Communism's most direct and successful grab for power in South America, a dentist named Cheddi B. Jagan won an election and took office four years ago in British Guiana. Britain's embarrassed answer then was a task force of three warships and 700 troops to depose him. Last week, after the Northwestern University-educated dentist swept another election (TIME, Aug. 12), a wiser, gentler Britain tried a subtler answer—dumping the difficult problems of running the poverty-stricken little colony directly into Cheddi Jagan's lap.

Sir Patrick Renison, the British governor, named Jagan as Minister...

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