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After that Castillo Armas' guerrillas walked in, took the town without resistance, established headquarters, and set up a provisional government...
Diaz followed, crediting Arbenz with doing "what he thought was his duty," and promising to preserve the social reforms of his regime. Like Arbenz and Rebel Castillo Armas, Diaz is a professional officer; the three were schoolmates at Guatemala's military academy. He is 40, popular in the army and among the people, less provincial than the narrow, little-traveled Arbenz. Last year he publicly declared: "There will be no Communists in the officers' corps while I am in command." He supported Arbenz from duty and in the belief that Arbenz' land reform was good; there...
Until the diplomatic machinery had time to work, any prospect of speedy peace was left squarely up to Diaz and Castillo Armas, with the U.S.'s Peurifoy to lend his good offices for a ceasefire...
...hastening to take an anti-Communist stand, obviously hoped to take a lot of the fire out of the rebels' anti-Red crusade. Diaz announced that the "struggle against the mercenary invaders of Guatemala will not abate," and went on uncrating his new Iron-Curtain shooting irons. But Castillo Armas, after a slow start, had already toppled his major target, and now had momentum as well as his deadly planes...
Right up to the dramatic climax of President Arbenz' forced resignation, the war in Guatemala was a strange, onesided air war, fought by three mysterious F47 Thunderbolts and an absurd little Cessna sports plane, all under the command of the leader of the anti-Communist rebels, Colonel Castillo Armas...