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...Arbenz flew off to exile in Buenos Aires...
...military assault that led to Colonel Arbenz' downfall was hardly a firecracker pop by modern standards. It consisted mainly of a miniature air war, waged by four obsolete rebel planes (see below...
They worked so effectively that the 2,000 tons of Communist infantry weapons that Arbenz imported last month were worthless-and he had no fighter planes of his own. As fear and tension grew in Guatemala, it became plain that the Communist...
...were there, and they wanted to know whether the U.S. Ambassador would recognize a junta headed by Diaz, and help stop the fighting. What Peurifoy had to say, in the 2¾-hour talk, was not reported. But at the end Diaz and two other officers went to give Arbenz the word. The President, forced to bow for the first time in his stubborn life, burst into a rage, stormed and argued. Finally he acceded, and went on the radio for a bitter farewell in an unsteady voice breaking with emotion...
Doctrinaire to the end, he charged that the United Fruit Co. of Boston (which lost 400,000 acres of land to Arbenz' agrarian reform program) had "tried to destroy our country" under the pretext of attacking Communism. He referred sorrowfully to the "overwhelming and tremendous means at the command of Guatemala's enemies." and signed...