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Actually, squarejawed, mystical President Juan Jose Arevalo is no real socialist, but a warm-hearted man full of the necessity for improving the lot of his countrymen. His books, written while he was a university professor in Argentina, abound with denunciations of Communism as "the lowest form of social organization." He sits up to all hours drawing blueprints for school improvements. He discourses by the hour to such visitors as Cinemactor Tyrone Power on the urgent need for a Central American union (TIME, Sept...
...years five Agriculture Ministers have departed because of differences of policy. But professorial, impractical Juan Arevalo has taken no decisive step either to make socialism a permanent feature of his Government, or to abandon it and sell the seized lands back to private ownership...
...continental guide" for the assertion of national sovereignty. To some Mexicans Arévalo's brave words may have sounded like mention of rope in the house of the hanged; Mexico today is pondering how to attract foreign capital to help reorganize her hopelessly inefficient oil industry. But Arevalo had a purpose. He was talking at the United Fruit Co., whose north coast plantations had been paralyzed for four weeks by the largest strike in Guatemalan history...
...presidents of Guatemala and El Salvador met, agreed to name three commissioners each (the other republics were invited to do the same) to draw up a plan by next March for closer Central American union. Guatemala's President Juan Jose Arevalo, who had seen his 1945 proposals for customs union stalled by local interests, spoke again for action. "This is the moment for firm decisions," he said, "not half-baked ones...
...Governments invited Costa Rica to join them in doing away with passports for travel between their countries, using a Central American travel card instead. Costa Rica accepted, and Julio Acosta, Minister of Foreign Relations, signed with the Salvadoreans and started for Guatemala City. On his way he read Arevalo's speech, decided that "half-baked" had been aimed at his country. He returned to Costa Rica, leaving the cause of Central American union about where it was. It was the sort of thing that always seemed to keep the five states from getting together...