Word: oases
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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In the U.N. last week Russian and Guatemalan delegates had struggled to make any investigation of the war a Security Council matter-Russia doubtless relishing the potentialities for propaganda and mischief. But the U.S. point of view-that ending the war was a task for the Organization of American States...
Friendly Veto. To many laymen the clash in Guatemala seemed a civil conflict with some international overtones; the original staging area was certainly Honduras, and the first planes came from somewhere outside Guatemala. In the council, what it was became a legal question. Brazil and Colombia, terming it a "dispute...
Because the veto paralyzed the council, the OAS Inter-American Peace Commission held itself in readiness to take up the Guatemalan question. But events in the narrow streets and bush trails of Guatemala could move faster than any commission ; the Arbenz regime could be shattered - or it could emerge victorious...