SUBVERSION IN BRITISH GUIANA: WHY AND HOW THE KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION GOT RID OF A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT.(President John F. Kennedy) From: Monthly Review | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1999 Monthly Review Foundation, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

On June 30, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, his British counterpart Harold Macmillan, and a coterie of ambassadors, Foreign Ministers and assistants, met for talks at scenic Birch Grove, England. A joint press communique revealed that the delegations discussed issues of mutual and global importance, such as the multilateral force treaty. However, nowhere in the text of the communique is it mentioned that the question of British Guiana (now Guyana) figured prominently in the Birch Grove discussions. Macmillan's memoirs and those of Presidential Aide Theodore Sorenson and Secretary ...