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...British Honduras. Between notes to London, he composed a resolution to be submitted to the Bogota conference "calling for the disappearance of all colonies on American territory." Then, while his police watched to see that things did not go too far, 2,500 students paraded, ran up the Guatemalan flag on the British Legation flagstaff, plastered the building with stickers proclaiming "Pirates in Tuxedos!"-"Death to John Bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Boost from Britain | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Gorge Garcia Granados, Guatemalan Ambassador to the United States and United Nations delegate, will speak on "United Nations Problems in Palestine" tomorrow at 8 o'clock in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News in Brief | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

...anti-government newspaper in Guatemala City had set off the incident that excited the British Admiralty. Jeering at Guatemala's army, the paper had asked why it did not "occupy Belize and show that Guatemalan soldiers were useful for more than parades." Though President Juan José Arévalo promptly closed the paper for this insult to the army, the incident gave the British a fair reason for a show of strength. Argentina and Chile, which had been needling Britain in Antarctica (TIME, March 1), could be expected to take notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Battle of Belize | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Mexico City, occupying 45 chairs in as many different cafes on any given day, are the 45 generals who used to command Ubico's army in Guatemala. They have an odd habit of snorting through their noses as they tell you what they will do to the current Guatemalan Government once they get arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Last week, another American neighbor turned on him. Guatemala refused to accept the ambassador proposed by Trujillo, formally broke relations with the Dominican Republic. Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, who never forgets that his country got rid of its own dictator, General Jorge Ubico, in 1944, pointed a democratic finger of scorn. Trujillo, he said, had corrupted "republican practices into monarchical practices." With rigged elections like last May's, he added, Dictator Trujillo could rule "for the next four centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Dictator Snubbed | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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