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Misty-eyed defenders of Guatemala's party-lining government regularly point out that, after all, there are really only four Communists among the country's 64 Congressmen. But does that modest statistic truly reflect the extent of Communist penetration and power? Not by the length of Marx's beard-as two deputies to Congress demonstrated last week...
...afternoon Paco rose in Congress and said a few kind words for some local Communists. As he warmed to his work, he exclaimed that the Communist Party is Guatemala's "most decent, most honest, most disciplined and most patriotic." Finally, carried away, Paco blurted out that his own party, PAR. is "only a party of transition . . . destined to disappear into the great world Communist Party...
...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...