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...days later Arbenz got Sierra Franco to produce another 100,000 quetzales "for emergency purposes," but the President fled to Mexican embassy asylum before he could take possession. That was when Sierra Franco found that he had been made the dupe. Hiding the 100,000 quetzales in his home, he too took refuge. Last week, on his phoned instructions, his wife gave the bills back to the treasury...
...even tell us he was going to resign." Arbenz probably took most of the loot into the Mexican embassy. Now his problem is to get away with it. Even if he gets a safe-conduct out of the country, the new government, under the rules of asylum, could search his baggage and seize any boodle. But a diplomatic cut of the loot to the right hands might still arrange a transfer of funds and let Inside Operator Arbenz head for the outside happily heeled...
...asylum seekers at the Chilean embassy turned out to have typhus-and was hastily turned...
Final Freedom. As though sheer numbers had not already strained the controversial custom of asylum, the guests abused it further. Violating conventions that require them to stay incommunicado, they phoned, received visitors, talked through doors and windows. Money and arms were passed in and out. The new government, convinced that the cash had been filched from the treasury, tried to stop the traffic with a warning to the ambassadors concerned, finally ringed the embassies with cops...
...allow the departure of any refugee guilty of common crimes," and said he thought he could show that Arbenz was the "author of a common crime." But to deny safe-conducts, at least for the important refugees, would be to defy both the generous interpretation of the right of asylum that Guatemala has traditionally held, and the government of Mexico. Guatemala's traditional friend. Worse, seizing Arbenz might enable him to pose as a martyr...