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What was it all about? The Reds who have bored into Guatemalan labor were boldly forcing a quick showdown with the country's new President Jacobo Arbenz. Only seven weeks ago, Colonel Arbenz took over from "Spiritual Socialist" Juan José Arévalo, who for six years had run the hemisphere's most left-wing regime...
...retiring President was Juan José Arévalo, who, after the 1944 revolution, had been called to the post from Argentine exile, had confounded the prophets by surviving 28 revolutionary plots and serving out his full six-year term. His successor: Colonel Jacobo Arbenz, 37, son of a Swiss pharmacist, onetime Defense Minister under Arévalo...
...valo's successor is anything but an idealist and dreamer. Colonel Arbenz is a soldier, whose road to the presidency was suddenly cleared one day in July 1949 when the popular favorite for the succession, Army Boss Francisco Araña, was cut down by assassins' bullets. In his first speech, after donning the blue & white sash of office last week, he was guarded and noncommittal. His new cabinet reflected the left-center coalition that had elected him. As his foreign minister he picked a left-winger, but he also assigned an important place as minister without portfolio...
...State Department hopes that Guatemala, under President Arbenz, will turn from Arévalo's leftist path. A property-holder as well as a militarist, he has repeatedly told fellow planters: "Don't worry, I'm not going to share my coffee fincas with anybody...
...Ydigoras Fuentes, the leading conservative presidential candidate, found it expedient to go into hiding. "With civilians disarmed," said Paz Tejada smoothly, "the army will be in a very good position to guarantee free elections." Nothing had really changed. Paz Tejada, who owed his present job to ex-Defense Minister Arbenz, had delivered the army's support to its old boss when he most needed it. And Juan José Arévalo was still president, having survived the 28th attempt against his regime in his five years in office...