Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Townsend of the University of Oklahoma's Summer Institute of Linguistics to head a mission to teach the Indians to read and write their own languages. Townsend, a friendly, energetic man who learned his first dialect (Cakchiquel) in 1917 trying to sell Bibles to the Indians of Guatemala, went to Peru in 1945 with eleven assistants. Before they could teach, Townsend and his teachers had to learn the local tongues themselves. Deciding to concentrate on the 18 most widely used dialects, they set off for the jungle...
...Guatemala's Communist-line Government swung its machete again last week, slicing 174,000 acres from the United Fruit Co.'s Atlantic Coast banana plantation for division among peasants under the new land-reform law. Earlier this year, the Agrarian Department had hacked away all but 66,000 acres of United Fruit's 300,000-acre Pacific Coast plantation (TIME, March 9). For the Atlantic Coast land, which the company values at $3,500,000, the government proposes to pay $570,000 in 25-year bonds...
...Guatemala, evidence of anti-U.S. feeling mounted when the government...
...took office with relatively little political experience and a few burning obsessions: ardent nationalism, a conviction that the country's worst problems can be solved by drastic land reforms, a deep-seated hatred of "foreign monopolies," i.e., United Fruit Co. and other U.S.-owned firms operating in Guatemala. No Communist himself, he nevertheless accepted the Communists around him at their face value, as old revolutionary friends ready to help carry out his nationalist aims...
International Schemers. Arbenz may not yet realize how much he has come to rely on his Communist advisers and policymakers. If the Reds are putting over the Cominform line in Guatemala, the wider meaning of this is lost on him. Neighboring Central American republics are at odds with Guatemala over the growing evidence that its comrades play the international Communist game, passing Red propaganda into Nicaragua and El Salvador and sending agitators to stir up Salvadorian and Honduran banana and coffee workers. Inside his own country, the split between left & right has widened until Arbenz himself says: "There...