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The U.S. State Department hopes that Guatemala, under President Arbenz, will turn from Arévalo's leftist path. A property-holder as well as a militarist, he has repeatedly told fellow planters: "Don't worry, I'm not going to share my coffee fincas with anybody...
Schoolmaster President. But in the capital the fincas' future was a sore political issue. Landowners, lawyers and businessmen complained bitterly about the turn of history that had put so much of the country's wealth in government hands. Some complained even more bitterly about an accident of politics...
The revolution had put the government (and the prized fincas) in charge of a man who calls himself a "spiritual socialist."
On February 23 Harvard's Costa Rica Expedition for plant collections, under the leadership of Dr. C. W. Dodge, Director of the Farlow Herbarium, returned to San Jose, Costa Rica's highland capital, after a month and half's sojourn in Guanacaste. With two, huge, native-made chests of cedar...