- Frederick Wills (Guyana)
Frederick Wills (died 1993) was the foreign affairs minister of
Guyana in the 1970s. He was later one of the founders of theSchiller Institute in theUnited States , part of theLaRouche movement .Wills started out as a
solicitor with a prominent firm in the early 1960s in Georgetown. WhenForbes Burnham came into power he appointed Wills as justice minister and later foreign affairs minister. In that capacity Wills briefly presided over theUnited Nations Security Council and twice addressed the General Assembly, once on independence forEast Timor and once onSeptember 27 ,1976 , to promote aThird World debt moratorium :The billions on this planet who live in the developing countries and whose existence is subjected to the constraints of the few who manipulate to their advantage the present-day economic system, have pinned their hopes on the modest programme put forward in Nairobi and elsewhere. Their determination is adamant, inexorable and relentless. The
IMF and the Bretton Woods monetary system must give way to alternative structures such as the international development banks, which are not geared to the revival and reconstruction of Europe nor preferential arrangements for the developed market economies, but rather to the just distribution of the gains of an equitable global system....In the spring of 1978, cult-leader
Jim Jones was tape-recorded inJonestown boasting that he had the Guyanese government on his side and that the foreign minister (presumably Wills) had assured him that, if anyone came for Jones, they would do so over "his dead body". [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q933.html]Wills' government service ended in the late 1970s and he moved to the United States. There he became an associate of
Lyndon LaRouche , and was a founding board member of the Schiller Institute in 1984.Fred Wills was beloved by the West Indian community, both in Guyana and in the U.S., for his role in promoting
cricket . He served as club captain for theDemerara Cricket Club (DCC) in Georgetown, Guyana, and was a popular announcer at cricket games in the U.S. Guyanese cricket fans proposed re-naming the DCC Pavilion as Fred Wills Pavilion.External links
* [http://www.schillerinstitute.org/strategic/non_align.html Schiller Institute article: "Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1976: When a New Just Monetary System Was On The Agenda". The story of Fred Wills' second U.N. speech.]
* [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/transcripts.html Jonestown Audiotape Primary Project: Transcripts]
* [http://caribbeancricket.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1259 Caribbean Cricket: mention of Wills' cricket skill]
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