Dr. Cheddi Jagan says: how o i ae 6s that j wc by the British to Bri ; . C01 ie Guiana, suspending the dle’s Sti and removing his Peo- 1e 0 ere ovement from Whelms. ich the 1 - Soitely elected it. governm ey tbyig allesea Communist plot is excuse nf 4 smokescreen. It is an Siva. ad destroying the progres- —— lecteg Svement,” declared the Guiana pene minister of British | lisheg Sie Press statement pub- RS : Charges iw a plot why have not Long before , brought against us? tized the re the elections we criti- OUE its 7, oRStitution and pointed and is of ations. The governor We intent leial advisers knew that ogreset €d to enact a series of Wes, ny © Dut controversial meas- : dese were: a; contra}, ‘Stee abolition of dual into tne 7 Purchasing of imports comp is Olony, a State lottery and Unio Tecognition of trade the New S9vernor and his officials Urs the did that in due inated U $Vernor and the nom- ome saad House Would be- People, The i” the eves of the have by © Upper House would tae of the meas- . - 'M the Rice Farm- Ment ane of Tenure Amend- iy e TS ac a: S it dj e ay oMmy 3 ISSte by ., mt has been made the n Democ n Guiana’ Western democracy will stand or fall to the extent t faces up to the challenge that is British Guiana.’ “ese het how Dr. Cheddi Jagan, now preparing to lay his ey store the British government, regards the issue precipi Peer, racy n trial “LONDON ent’s action in sending troops no more evidence of. Communism now than prior to the elections. “The people voted with their eyes wide open. The action of the British government therefore is in effect a challenge of the right of exercise of a free vote, the basis of democracy. “The party is a broad, demo- cratic alliance of all.classes strug- gling for self-determination. “Must the people be told: ‘Yes, you can vote, but you have no right to vote for the left-wing party’? “This is the fundamental ques- tion which all democratic, freedom- loving people must ask themselves: “Once the right to vote is re- stricted, then the foundation of democracy will always be on shift- ing ground. “Neither Communism nor the People’s Progressive party is on trial today. Democracy itself is on trial. “Western democracy will stand or fall to the extent that it faces up to the challenge that is British Guiana. “All liberal- minded people must accept this challenge and rally to the support of the pro- gressive movement in Guiana and for the preservation of de- bys fe British sovernment; : nothing new. There is mocracy and civilization.” Ppp dem Poteet & The Peome, ,, CEORGETOWN hag isa Ple’s Progressive Party a Stateme withdrawal, a at hee an Guiana and Opinion “to ® Our democratic Oo. issued > : € Constitution will ae Up a spur- Series of mis- SUDDoOsitions, come after armed Nn our country our peace- d to ation. tion, “PY intern oa 1 : be out Party is wibordination to “i Ministe is not af- ational — or- n Seeking world Ocratic support. trade union officials and were so before they became ministers. “The recent strike in the sugar industry was called for the specific purpose of better wages and bet- ter/ working conditions. It was called by workers’ representatives. “The party denies any attempt at the use of force:and violence. “We know nothing about under- mining loyalty in the police force but have always appealed to them as part of the Guianese population to cooperate in making a better country. “We have never been prepar- ed to use violence and plunge the state into economic and so- cial chaos, but have pursued a program of bringing about po- litical, economic and social em- ancipation by constitutional methods. , “We demand the immediate withdrawal of all troops and ap-|: peal to world opinion in this grave hour to rally in defense of our de- government charges. @ Appoint Colonel Hermann Fluckiger of Switzerland as governor of the disputed region at the head of the Adriatic sea. @ Set up a provisional coun- cil to help him govern the area. @ Establish the complete in- dependence of a free terri- tory of Trieste—including both Yugoslav-occupied zone B and zone A which has been controll- ed by British and American troops — within three months after appointment of a gov- ernor. Earlier, the Soviet Union pro- tested to Britain and the United States over what it termed “a grave violation” of the Italian peace treaty. The Soviet protest against the handing over to Italy of Trieste Zone A was contained in an iden- tical note delivered to the British and U.S. embassies in Moscow and published by Tass, the Soviet news agency. The note said: “This act of the governments of the United States and Britain rep- resents a grave violation of the iti ty with conditions of the peace trea : Italy in relation to the creation of the free territory of Trieste. said that this should have been Pe a by formation ofa provi- sional governmental council, crea- tion of a constituent assembly, and grant of a constitution. © recalled that the Italian peace ey es envisaged, the creation “ee a free territory which should be neutral and demilitarised, and pro- vided that the UN Security Coun- cil should appoint a governor. “The facts show that the new violation by the governments of the United States and Britain of the peace treaty with. Italy inevitably leads toa heightening of friction in relations among — countries bordering on the free TS are mocratic rights.” territory of Trieste, and creates The Soviet Union demanded last week that the UN Security Council try national administration for the free territory of Trieste, despite Yugoslav objections. Andrei Vishinsky, chief Soviet delegate, submitted a resolution for action which would: e ae The Anglo-American decision on Trieste (above) violates the Italian peace treaty, the Soviet ‘ USSR says Trieste action violation of peace treaty UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. again to set up an inter- ” a threat to the peace and securi- ty of this region.” The note’ complained that the decrees laid down for the free ter- ritory of Trieste had not been car- ried out. “As a consequence of this the government of the United States, as well as the government of Brit- ain, did not fulfill the obligations they assumed relating to creation of the free territory of Trieste,” it said. The U.S. and Britain turned down all candidates for the post of. governor proposed to the Se- curity Council, despite the -ab- sense of any basis, the note recall- ed. The two Western governments declined ‘to‘agree on appointment of a governor from any of the candidates which they themselves put forward for consideration. “Niolation by the United States and Britain of the obliga- tions they undertook is shown also in that Trieste has been transformed into an illegal An- glo-American military and naval base which plays an important role in the military plans for the aggressive North Atlantic bloc,” said the note. The Soviet Union rejected the British and U.S. claim that it ap- peared impossible to achieve agree- ment with other signatories of the Italian peace treaty with regard to creation of a permanent regime for Trieste as envisaged in the treaty. The Soviet note said facts show- ed “that the United States and Britain avoided and still avoid the fulfilment of conditions of the peace treaty with Italy with rela- tion to creation of the free terri- tory of Trieste.” the big stick at the progressive government of Guatemala. Speaking at a meeting of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs and the International Com- mission of Women, John M. Cabot, U.S. assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, asserted that “wanton attacks” on the U.S. and its citizens had been coming from official Guatemalian sources for years. The U.S., he claimed, had the ‘right and duty to defend itself against such U.S. waves big stick at Guatemalan gov’t UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. While Jose: Luis Mendoza, Guatemalan delegate to the United Na- tions, challenged Britain’s action in British Guiana by drawing the attention of the UN trusteeship gommittee to the fact that “a metro- politan power” had landed troops on an American territory “to per- petuate the colonial system,” the United States last week was shaking Cabot’s charge against the Guatemalan ‘government was al- most identical with that used by the British government to justify its interference in British Guiana. The Guatemalan government, Cab- ot charged, was “openly playing the Communist game.” In the United Nations, Jose Luis Mendoza, without naming the countries involved, declared that as a result of the occupation of an American territory by force, the promise of realization of self-goy- ernment must now “also be recog- nized as false.”