Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emergency Aid. In the fire-alarm crises in Iran. Guatemala, Viet Nam, and Jordan, the U.S. used the technique of military-economic aid repeatedly and effectively to defeat Communist attempts to take over whole nations by subversion. Drawing the moral, Ike now wants a special emergency fund of $300 million to enable the U.S. to act swiftly and flexibly in whatever new crises come...
...Soviet Union ships about $100 million worth of gold to Switzerland, presumably to finance such undercover operations as its spying and propaganda network in the West, trade deals to get around the embargo on strategic goods. Such ousted rulers as Egypt's Farouk, ex-President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala and Argentina's ousted Dictator Juan Perón keep fortunes in Swiss banks all presumably pilfered from public funds. But sometimes the secrecy of Swiss banks defeats itself. Many an owner of a secret account has simply disappeared, leaving his money still on deposit. Estimated amount of unclaimed...
...precaution against manhandling, keeps his ears cocked for news leads by carrying a pocket radio wherever he goes. In nearly 30 years (ten for the Trib) on the banana-belt beat, he has developed an uncanny facility for guessing when and where a story will break. In Guatemala, where he reported as early as 1948 that the Arevalo regime was Communist-infiltrated, he arrived on the scene only hours before Castillo Armas' successful uprising broke out in 1954. New York-born Dubois speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese, travels 100,000 miles a year from his base in Panama...
...newsman's sacred duty to beat the censor," says Jules Dubois. He has used carrier pigeons, outgoing tourists and elaborately coded telephone calls to smuggle out his dispatches. He was about to be deported from Guatemala for violating censorship in the civil war when Castillo Armas entered the city. Fortunately for reporters, Castillo Armas was an old friend: he had studied under Colonel-Instructor Dubois during World War II in the U.S. Army's command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth. Castillo Armas at once gave newsmen the run of the wires without censorship...
...some year," says Dubois, "the time may come when the association can say to a dictator or a would-be dictator: 'Stop! You've gone far'enough!'" But Dubois reports that even in countries where newspapers are basically free, even in Castillo Armas' Guatemala, attempts at suppression continue. The moment a free press fears to cry stop, he suggests, it invites new Trujillos...