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...single country in this hemisphere which has not been penetrated by the apparatus of international Communism operating under orders from Moscow") with the prospect of U.S. economic cooperation (more technical aid, continued Export-Import Bank loans, no price ceilings on coffee). The Secretary made no reference to Guatemala, the one country where Communists are gaining steadily in influence...
Appeal to Bolivar. Guatemala's Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello, showing no such restraint, delivered a fiery counterattack, directly naming the U.S., and made the biggest oratorical hit of the week with conference delegates. Rhetorically demanding: "What is international Communism?" he lashed out at "imperialism" and "foreign monopolies," then called the U.S. program "only a pretext to intervene in our internal affairs." Toriello went on to recall "the Big Stick, the tarnished 'dollar diplomacy' and the landing of the U.S. Marines in Latin American ports" that marked U.S.-Latin American relations in the old days before nonintervention became...
...Guatemala's anemic anti-Communist opposition still nursed the faint hope that President Jacobo Arbenz might become fed up with his Red allies and disavow them, that hope was blacked out last week by the most forthright pro-Communist declaration the President has ever uttered. In a 2½ hour report to Congress on the state of the nation, Arbenz called the Communists "progressive democratic forces" and "the very wellspring of our regime." He said that to turn against the Reds and repress them, as "certain landowner groups and agents of foreign monopolies" have urged, "would be ... suicide...
...international policy" and "to top it all," the formation of a Communist Party, organized since his inaugural three years ago. Standing shoulder to shoulder with his Marxist comrades, the President then said what they presumably wanted him to say about the conference in Caracas. "It is entirely up to Guatemala to decide what form of democracy she must have . . . The real issue at the Inter American Conference should be the common Latin American problem of economic betterment, so that we will not continue to be the objects of monopolistic investment and the sources of raw materials, selling cheap and buying...
...free Puerto Rice, free Guatemala" arose from the melee, prompted by those in league with segura, and undoubtedly by some free thinkers...