Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William aboard at historic Cartagena, the Sheffield raced northwest for Belize. Over from Jamaica, by a second order, steamed the 9,850-ton cruiser H.M.S. Devonshire with a detachment of the Gloucestershire Regiment. The occasion for this showing of the flag: "Possible incidents staged by irresponsible elements in neighboring Guatemala...
...anti-government newspaper in Guatemala City had set off the incident that excited the British Admiralty. Jeering at Guatemala's army, the paper had asked why it did not "occupy Belize and show that Guatemalan soldiers were useful for more than parades." Though President Juan José Arévalo promptly closed the paper for this insult to the army, the incident gave the British a fair reason for a show of strength. Argentina and Chile, which had been needling Britain in Antarctica (TIME, March 1), could be expected to take notice...
...Guatemala hurriedly prepared to recognize both Chile's and Argentina's Antarctic claims, even though they overlapped. Argentine Tango Composer Enrique Dicépolas got a cable from Mexico City: "Word has reached here of the gallant posture you've assumed in front of the intransigent British lion. It pleases me to offer you the Mexican fleet if Argentina needs reinforcements to defeat the English wherever they may be found. Because what are we? Brave cats or miserable mice? At your service. Signed: Juan Charrasqueado [Scarface John-Mexico's man-in-the-street and currently...
Somoza's Gain. The only one who seemed to have gained anything out of the fizzled blitz was Nicaragua's wily "Tacho" Somoza. Last week, he had let out a howl that Nicaraguan revolutionaries in Guatemala were planning to bomb his capital. Now he himself had two four-engined bombers-a tidy air force for Central America. Somoza solemnly thundered, through his mouthpiece and stooge, uncle Roman y Reyes, that the planes would "be used only to defend the soil of Nicaragua and its legitimate government" against attacks from Guatemala...
Apparently Somoza was only trying to smoke out a plot that was being hatched across the border, but Arevalo had no intention of being used as a smudge pot. "Absolutely false," he replied coldly. Old Nicaraguan Rebel Emiliano Chamorro, who is now in Guatemala, took time off from his scheming to add his own sardonic comment. "Our efforts are confined to diplomacy," he said. "Somoza, scared by his own crimes, has a persecution complex and is trying to escape attention by making fantastic accusations to justify a wave of terror in Nicaragua...