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Meanwhile, President-elect Arévalo, a realist, had sent a mission to Washington in search of the Lend-Lease arms reported to have been promised to his predecessor. Dictator Federico Ponce. The mission, which traveled by plane, was surrounded by as many cloud banks of secrecy as a Big Three meeting. Some members swooped out of the clouds long enough to be recognized in Chicago. Others, supposed to be in Washington, had gone officially underground...
Then the Salvadoran Supreme Court declared Colonel Aguirre's Government unconstitutional. With this open incite ment to revolution, Chief Justice Miguel Tomas Molina fled to the Guatemalan Embassy. Into Guatemala, which last week ousted Dictator Federico Ponce in a lively revolution of its own, fled Doctor Jorge Sol Castellanos, President of the Credit Banks of El Salvador. All the country's banks closed their doors...
Young officers, students and workers last week captured Lend-Lease guns and armored cars to smash General Federico Ponce's Guatemalan dictatorship. When the shooting stopped, a provisional triumvirate ruled Guatemala: Captain Jacobo Arbenz, 28-year-old son of a Swiss druggist, who planned the revolt; Major Francisco Xavier Arana, and Jorge Toriello, son of one of Guatemala's first families...
...revolt had been smoldering since last July, when an uprising ousted Dictator Jorge Ubico. By pretending that he would hold free elections for the first time in 23 years, General Federico Ponce got himself elected as temporary President by the Ubico-picked Legislature...
Unsmiling General. When Guatemala's hated Dictator Jorge Ubico resigned the presidency, he delegated power to a junta of three generals. The leader, hard and unsmiling Federico Ponce, promptly convoked Ubico's hand-picked Congress, over awed it by stationing troops at the doors. Obediently, the deputies elected him Provisional President. Five young lawyers who protested were slapped into jail. Ponce's government won astonishingly prompt U.S. approval...