Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through thronged streets in Guatemala City last week rolled an open Chrysler carrying two men who looked astonishingly like President Carlos Castillo Armas and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon...
...Ricardo!" pleaded the first, "Guatemala needs a handout...
...Ambassador to Thailand John Peurifoy, a career man who has ironed out messy situations in Greece and Guatemala, will take on, as an additional task, that of U.S. representative on the SEATO defense council at Bangkok. The job, equivalent to the NATO post to which ex-Assistant Secretary of State George Perkins was recently appointed, may become even more important, since the SEATO area, more than Europe, depends on the U.S. for its defense...
...Guatemala has the most frustrating gap. Mexico's fine paved stretch of the highway reaches the border at a different point from where Guatemala's road net touches the Mexican border. At present a 164-mile, $35 railway-flatcar haul bridges the gap. With $1,425,000 granted last October by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, construction is getting started to connect the loose ends. But Nixon, who wants to help anti-Communist President Carlos Castillo Armas with public works, backs a speedup (with $20 million to $30 million in U.S. aid) that will quickly close...
...Guatemala, when Nixon asked a market woman about her husband, she rocked him by answering, "I have no husband, just babies"; he didn't bat an eye. In El Salvador, children sang The Star-Spangled Banner in quaint English and proudly confided that they were from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt School; he grinned. In Honduras hundreds of swooping bicycle riders turned the Vice President's dignified motorcade into a happily disorganized parade; he was delighted...