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Crackdown followed showdown in Guatemala last week. Having weathered a stormy counterrevolt of army officers who hankered after another change (TIME, Aug. 16), Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas finally struck at Guatemalan Communism with the sort of command decisions his followers have been demanding since the June revolution...
...series of legislative decrees replacing the 1945 constitution, the junta President 1) outlawed the Communist Party, making Guatemala the 18th Latin American republic to do so, and 2) dissolved the elaborate structure of political parties and social and economic front organizations through which the Reds had dominated the country. Castillo Armas then committed Guatemala to the U.S.-sponsored anti-Communist resolution which 17 of the American states approved but which the Arbenz regime fought bitterly at the Inter-American conference in Caracas last March...
...crackdown came none too soon. The country's leading Reds, every one of whom eluded Castillo Armas' somewhat butterfingered clutches last June, were hard at work trying to regroup their shattered forces underground. Some who first fled to asylum in embassies later slipped out to join other comrades in stirring up the peasants and the numerous unemployed. Immediately after the recent army rising, Communist leaflets quickly appeared on the streets proclaiming that "the people" had turned against the regime as "a fascist dictatorship imposed...
...EIfego Monzón, the army's spokesman in the junta, felt that the regulars had gone too far. Dashing from barracks to bar racks, Monzón next day won pledges of loyalty to the junta from all except officers commanding one military base near the airfield. Castillo Armas also had an even stronger ally. For the first time, public opinion spoke out, revealing unexpectedly heavy support for Castillo Armas. Outraged by the brutal treatment of the Liberation forces, huge crowds marched to the palace to shout: "Down with the army! Death to the treacherous cadets!" University students...
...from its six-plane air force to strafe the holdouts, the junta forced the surrender of the rebellious base and arrested its top officers. The army fell obediently silent. The President ordered his irregulars rearmed. Then, as if finally confident that he, after all, is the man in charge, Castillo Armas restored constitutional liberties which his junta had suspended, and moved from the rented side-street house he had occupied since the June victory and installed himself in the presidential palace...