Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Merrill's second editorship, from 1919 to his death in 1940, has been characterized by Bulletin historians as the period of the "frogs of Guatemala." This epithet does not imply that there ever was a Bulletin article specifically discussing Guatemalan frogs, but only that there might as well have been. For as one scans the issues of this 20-year period, and notices the astonishing frequency of articles reporting esoteric scientific field trips, one gets the distinct impression that "the frogs of Guatemala" would be right at home on the cover of the following issue...
...Guatemala's Archbishop Mariano Rossell y Arellano, 59, has watched the bold encroachment of Communism on his country with growing dismay. Last week the greying archbishop sounded a nationwide alarm, denouncing the Red infiltration in a pastoral letter read from all the country's Roman Catholic pulpits...
...people of Guatemala must rise as one man against this enemy. Our struggle against Communism must be ... a crusade of prayer and sacrifice, as well as intensive spreading of the social doctrine of the church and a total rejection of Communist propaganda-for the love of God and Guatemala...
Frank H. Baker of Hartford, Conn.; Phillip R. Burnaman of Tulsa, Okla.; Hugh P. Chandler (Capt.) of Auburndale, Mass.; Kenneth B. Culbert of E. Boothbay, Me.; Philip M. Herrera of Guatemala; Richard W. Hook of Medford, Mass.; Peter F. Morrison of Waban, Mass.; William C. B. Young of Baltimore...
Against whom? Last week's vote suggested a possible first peril point. Only Guatemala voted against the doctrine. Said Dulles, just before taking off for Washington an hour after the final ballot : "The fact that one American nation voted against the resolution shows how necessary it was that the conference should have acted as it did. Now, of course, we shall have the task of assuring that the enemies of freedom do not move into the breach which has been disclosed in our ranks...