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Guatemala's Congress this week passed one of the most sweeping land-reform bills ever enacted in the Western Hemisphere, and sent it to President Jacobo Arbenz. As the measure's prime sponsor, he was expected to sign it promptly into...
...also meant that although the rising tide of popular anti-Communist feeling in Guatemala has not yet produced an outstanding leader or a closely united organization, it has given the country's high-placed Reds and pro-Reds something to worry about. President Jacobo Arbenz' government considers the anti-Communist movement subversive, and has openly accepted the Reds as allies against...
...Article 32 of the Constitution prohibiting "political organizations of an international or foreign character." With Gutiérrez' followers in the fold on orders from Moscow, Guatemala's Communist Party was doubled in size and more foreign-dominated than ever. But at week's end President Jacobo Arbenz had not even replied to the petition...
...election fund and hundreds of campaign workers, plus the warm support of President Jacobo Arbenz, the pro-government leftist parties and the Communists. He did have one worry: his house might be too small for a proper post-election celebration...
Instead of talking about new taxes, Unifruit felt that it needed assurance against extra tax burdens now, and an end to Moscow-wired union squabbles, before it could safely invest the millions necessary to rebuild wrecked Tiquisate. Last week company officials, received by Guatemala's young President Jacobo Arbenz, tried to get such assurance. They did not. Arbenz bounced the issue down to the "ministerial level," where it remained deadlocked...