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...coalition gained power, but torn by factional strife, it was unable to reduce the country's political and economic misery, and a conservative party- "The Rally of the Greek People" -was elected to succeed it in 1952. This party had been inspired and launched in large measure by John Peurifoy, the newly-arrived U.S. ambassador-the same man who, as ambassador to Guatemala, engineered the 1954 coup there in cooperation with...
...value listed on the company's tax forms. U.F.C., backed by the Dulles brothers, two old United Fruit lawyers, demanded $16 million. (United Nations, Foreign Capital in Latin America, 1955, pp. 97-98) Arbenz had the impudence to refuse. He was, then, in the words of U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy, "a man who thought like a communist, and talked like a communist, and if not actually one, would do until one came along." (Fontaine, op.cit...
...GREEK TRAGEDY shows how the coup in Greece was the most recent and severe example of U. S. intervention there. With the intensification of the Cold War in 1950, the U. S. sent John Peurifoy as ambassador to set up an intransigently anti-Communist regime. He was successful. He managed to reorganize the Right under Field-Marshal Papagos, military leader of the Royalist faction during the thirties, leading supporter of dictator Metaxas (1936-40), and Commander-in-Chief of the national Greek Amry in the last winning phase of the civil war. He began a party called "The Greek Rally...
Died. John Clinton Peurifoy, 19, last surviving son of handsome, fast-driving Diplomat John E. Peurifoy, who, along with his younger son, was killed (1955) at the wheel of a Thunderbird in Thailand; in Tulsa, Okla. When his father was Ambassador to Greece, young John, a wheelchair spastic, was told by Queen Frederika: "In school the best pupil is always given the hardest problems to solve. God gave you the hardest problem of all, so you must be his favorite pupil...
...story told by Admiral Charles Brown was a stirring lesson for young and old. Clinton Peurifoy, the hero, will always be an inspiration to all that read it as well as the favorite pupil of Jesus...