Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody in his senses believed that Guatemala seriously contemplated expropriating the United Fruit's immense, highly mechanized plantations. With a bark fiercer than his bite, Arévalo in his 20 months of rule had not even got around to using his constitutional power to revise the company's 50-year exemption from new taxation. But his bold speechifying had an immediate effect: next day the strike was suspended; United Fruit agreed to rehire hundreds of discharged workers and ordered its ships to resume their calls at the Caribbean port of Puerto Barrios...
Economically Guatemala can expect scant enough assistance from its northern neighbor. But the Mexican revolution, long since gone paunchy, serves Guatemala as a neat talking point to scare foreign business interests into a reasonable mood...
...regional basis, a majority of 43 students come from Europe and Canada, 32 from Latin America, 6 from the Far East, and but I from the Near East. A breakdown by countries shows that Guatemala leads with 8 representatives, followed by Germany with 7, and by England and France with 6 apiece. No less than 13 countries are represented by one student apiece...
...visit to Panama was one stop on a tour. Haya had already been in Colombia and Venezuela. In Panama, where the university gave him an honorary law degree, Lieut. General Willis D. Crittenberger invited him to lunch at Canal Zone headquarters. Haya would go to Costa Rica and Guatemala. To each country he had an official invitation...
Soon, at London's request, the new International Court of Justice will review Guatemala's old claim that British Honduras is hers. Most citizens do not like the idea. Said one Edgar Gilbert Napier Gegg, a storekeeper: "In the momentous year of 1798 the question was settled decisively by the Battle of St. George's Cay" (in which a British flotilla defeated a Spanish squadron, assured British control of the coast). To show where they stood, the settlement's Loyal and Patriotic Order of Baymen revived last week the anniversary of the battle (which Guatemalans...