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...first time in three years, the Communist-infiltrated Guatemalan government backpedaled sharply on its Red line. Its leaders apparently realized that their stunt of importing a huge shipment of weapons from behind the Iron Curtain had not only angered the U.S. but had also stirred up the neighbors. One afternoon last week, a grey C-47 buzzed low over Guatemala City, showering leaflets which called on all true patriots to rise and fight for Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, exiled anti-Communist army leader now plotting a comeback from Honduras. In Honduras and in Nicaragua, U.S. Air Force Globemasters...
...Toriello called in U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy and had what he later described as a "most cordial" talk on improving relations. Toriello tried hard to put over the idea that the issue really keeping the two countries apart is the United Fruit Co.'s troubles with the Guatemalan government, and that the governments could end the tension by settling the company's problems...
Time for Change? Watching and waiting, Washington stepped up action slowly. Since it might be preferable that another republic take the lead in proposing action against Guatemalan Communism, the State Department stood by while Nicaragua and Costa Rica sounded out the South Americans on collective action. But Senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson hinted at what might come when he told a Texas audience last week that economic sanctions against Guatemala are under consideration. In an ominously vague phrase Secretary John Foster Dulles forecast collective action-"if circumstances permit...
...idlers. Day after day, on cars of the U.S.-owned International Railways of Central America, the crates rolled up to the capital, 197 miles away. Armed guards rode each car. One night a stick of dynamite exploded without serious damage under an arms train, presumably set by anti-Communist Guatemalan exiles who had come over the Honduras border, 15 miles away. Tracing the fuse, soldiers wound up in a gunfight. One sergeant and one saboteur were killed...
...Guatemalan Communists, in recent years, have roughed up United Fruit with labor demands and land expropriation, and have exacted such labor concessions as pay for unworked Sundays, improved housing, free medical care, severance pay and paid vacations. None of these provisions are yet in force in Honduras, although United Fruit workers are the highest paid in the country. The difference gave Guatemalan Reds fuel for propaganda denouncing United Fruit and "im-perialismo Yanqui." The result was the current strike...