Two years earlier, an attempt was made by the PPP regime to create a National Army, but the attempt was skilfully and successfully ignored by the British Governor of the colony. Amid growing suspicions from several social organisations and opposition parties in Guiana that the PPP was trying to set up an Armed Force to carry out narrow factional and partisan missions, the Defence Ordinance (1962) calling for the establishment of a unit styled the "British Guiana Army" was passed by the Legislative Assembly. Allegedly patterned after the West Indies Defence Act 1958 setting up the British West Indian Regiment under the Federal Government, this ordinance was never assented to, for some strange and undisclosed reason. It was agreed by all parties that a National Army was needed, but the colonial Governor evidently had other information which led him to withhold his assent. The ordinance therefore was never to be implemented. An Israeli Military adviser - Colonel Ram Ron, who visited Guiana, had declared that the country had the right quality material to build a National Army and the young men were up to the standard required. It was therefore hoped, at that time, that an Army along the Israeli pattern of combining development with Defence would be set up. This was not to be. In fact, one might well wonder about what type of Force the PPP regime had in mind, for when the bill was debated in the Legislative Assembly in October 1962, no mention was made of developmental tasks by the Regime's speakers and only the PNCs spokesmen - John Carter and Forbes Burnham - called four training soldiers in mechanical, engineering, carpentry, masonry and agricultural skills and for consideration to be given to the broader aspects of agricultural settlement. In the final analysis, the ordinance was shelved. It was left up to the People's National Congress (PNC) government to get the iob done.