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...Sunday morning of this week there were plain signs of defection in the army and the cabinet. Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello called in U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy, sought to see what could be saved, offered to resign. Peurifoy's diplomatic answer was that he would certainly like to see the bloodshed end. He was barely back at his embassy when the phone rang again. It was Colonel Carlos Enrique Diaz, chief of the armed forces...
Would the Ambassador come to his house for an urgent conference? Farewell Address. Through deserted, shuttered streets went Peurifoy. Five top-ranking colonels were there, and they wanted to know whether the U.S. Ambassador would recognize a junta headed by Diaz, and help stop the fighting. What Peurifoy had to say, in the 2¾-hour talk, was not reported. But at the end Diaz and two other officers went to give Arbenz the word. The President, forced to bow for the first time in his stubborn life, burst into a rage, stormed and argued. Finally he acceded, and went...
...President Jacobo Arbenz, the proud and stubborn army officer who has traveled so long and so far with the Reds, suddenly decided that a personal meeting between President Eisenhower and himself might "ease the present tense situation." Foreign Minister Guillermo 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...
...some such concerted program, the State Department still hopes to convince Guatemala's President Jacobo Arbenz of the error of his fellow-traveling ways. But if the situation in Guatemala continues to deteriorate, the ultimate possibility of unilateral U.S. action cannot be ruled out. Said U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy in Guatemala City last week: "Public opinion in the U.S. might force us to take some measures to prevent Guatemala from falling into the lap of international Communism. We cannot permit a Soviet republic to be established between Texas and the Panama Canal." Peurifoy declined to say what possible measures...
Today, after a year of Papagos' government, none of the gallant gentlemen concerned will admit the slightest friction between themselves and Frederika. Peurifoy and Grady have only the highest praise for her. The feud between the Marshal and the Queen, which never got far beyond the cafes of Athens in any case. seems to have been tacitly forgotten by everyone concerned...