Word: bil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colony, "probably the most effective Fifth Column agency in all Latin America." Central America. "One of the most remarkable characters in the Americas" is 63-year-old General Jorge Ubico, Guatemala's "constitutional President" who is "an utterly complete dictator." He keeps Guatemala "as orderly as an empty bil liard table," himself patrols the whole country on a motorcycle. When he finds a lazy official relaxing in an automobile, he takes the car away from him, gives him a motorcycle. "Try this for a year," he says, "and see how it shakes your kidneys up." Germans in Guatemala completely...