Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ribbentrop launched an attack on the Monroe Doctrine on the eve of the Havana Conference (TIME, July 15). Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, before setting out for Havana with eight trade, monetary, agricultural and political experts, slapped back at another attempt to make trouble. From Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua came reports that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to the Central American Republics, had circulated a note of warning among the small but touchy nations that lie near the Panama Canal...
While the Americas prepared to discuss plans for a western hegemony, the shadow of an uninvited guest fell ominously across the conference city. Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister to Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, delivered a note to the five latter Central American Republics (Panama was excluded), warning them that the conference would move Western Hemisphere nations away from neutrality, that the Nazis would retaliate (by unannounced means) should the delegates act against Germany. And Secretary of State Cordell Hull, head of the U. S. delegation to Havana, promptly barked back...
...instructions from Berlin to Nazi agents in the U. S., as well as elsewhere in the Americas, including plenty of boring from within in Mexico. Awaiting further instructions from Berlin, Dietrich and his staff of 30 Nazis hoped to set up headquarters in another Latin-American country, perhaps Guatemala, where 34 additional agents en route to the Americas on the Japanese steamer Asama Mam might join them...