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Guyana was low in importance to UK in 1970

Apr 04, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

A recent declassified UK report in 1970 has been released rating Guyana as very low on its radar in terms of political importance to the United Kingdom. The document reveals the thinking of the UK government on the political importance of countries globally. According to the report, the USA and the USSR were the most important countries with all others falling below those two.
The document assessed the world in 1970 in terms of how the imperial nation categorise countries by degree of diplomatic and political importance to the UK. In its rating of political importance, the UK Foreign-Office assigned a points mark and letter grade. The USA was assigned a score of 650 and USSR 290; both were assigned a letter grade of A, the only countries to be so graded. All others received lower grade that go down to H. It is not known what characteristics or factors were used to evaluate countries and how scores were assigned.
Countries between scores of 50 and 290 received a B grade. Canada, Australia, and India were the only Commonwealth countries to receive B.
C graded countries received marks of between 20 and 50. Pakistan, Malaysia, Nigeria, New Zealand got a C grade. D rated countries received marks of between 10 and 20. Kenya, Singapore, and Zambia were the only Commonwealth countries to make that grade. Guyana and Jamaica in the Caribbean were E rated with a score of between 5 and 9. Trinidad was F rated with a score of 3 to 4. Barbados was in G grade with a score of 1-2. All other countries received 0 or negative scores.
In 1970, Guyana would have been relatively politically important to the UK as it was still in the orbit of Cold War politics. The country’s dominant political leaders Jagan and Burnham introduced Cold War politics in Guyana in the 1950s with the former aligned with east bloc and the latter the western bloc with devastating consequences to the nation from which it seems unable to recover till this day. Although the UK and US intervened in Guyana’s internal affairs, the country seemed politically unimportant to the UK. It would have been far more important to the USA that engineered the ouster of Jagan replacing him with Burnham.

Yours truly,
Vishnu Bisram

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