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Actually, Toriello and his boss seemed to realize that a good deal more than a truce on the banana front was needed to take the heat off. Calling a press conference, the Foreign Minister dealt out reassurances in all directions. No more munitions ships were on the way, he said. "Guatemala does not menace anyone, especially our sister republics. Our army will never serve as an instrument of aggression." The Guatemalans pulled back troops from the Honduran border and offered the astonished Hondurans, who had just recalled their ambassador, a mutual-assistance and nonaggression pact...
...general strike, the first in its history, last week paralyzed Honduras' north coast, home of the banana industry. More than 40,000 workers were out, and 40 million bananas a week were ripening and rotting. At one banana company compound, strikers switched locks on the gates and made U.S. managers ask permission...
...Minh and similar causes. Arbenz took over from there: ¶On the H-bomb: all the tests must be halted, atomic weapons must be banned. ¶On the recent U.S. note asking a $15 million indemnity to the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. for 233,973 acres of expropriated banana lands: "Blackmail." ¶ On his political opposition:"They work like criminals at night painting numbers on walls. Under the innocent number 32, they hide their true aim, which is to destroy our constitutional liberties...
...Communists and agrarian reformers who run Guatemala's government grabbed 233,973 acres of the United Fruit Co.'s best banana reserve lands at Tiquisate last year, and blandly offered the company $594,572 in 25-year government bonds as payment. The company, which values the land at $15,854,849, cried "confiscation," and asked the U.S. Government for help...
...fairy godmother in all this is Comedian Phil Silvers, playing a sort of Bottom Banana in the burlesque business; but for all the waving of his magic cigar, the movie is still a pumpkin...