Word: guatemala
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...Back when the U.N. first began making small nations feel big, Guatemala's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's barged in on then British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. British Honduras, proclaimed the ambassador, belonged to neighboring Guatemala and must be handed over instantly. Bevin heard the fellow out, then leaned over, tapped him on the knee, and cut him down to size with a single question: "What did you say you called your country...
...Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica...
...Commandos have sent training missions to Saudi Arabia, Greece, Mali, Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador and El Salvador, helped the Dominican Republic set up its own Air Commando units. In a spirit of international camaraderie, Guatemala awarded the U.S. instructors its own Air Force wings at a graduation party, required the Air Commandos to down a bottle of local liquor to reach the wings at the bottom...
Devious Schemes. For five years, the country was never quite sure what the President would say or do next. His most consistent policy was his antiCommunism. Guatemala was the training base for the Bay of Pigs invaders, and Ydigoras was loudest among Latin America's anti-Castroites. Yet recently, Ydigoras seemed to be going about it in a devious and dangerous way that enraged his most loyal supporters...
...Yankee hater (The Shark and the Sardines) who made friends with the Communists during his 1945-51 term as President, announced that he was returning to run for President again. Ydigoras let it be known that he would hale Arévalo into court if he set foot in Guatemala. Then he had a better idea: Why not let Arévalo return and beat him at an election? Ydigoras could do this by his control of the election machinery. Ydigoras' own candidate was Roberto Alejos, a planter who lent some of his lands as training sites...