Word: pro-communist
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Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, the deadpan little insurgent who overthrew the pro-Communist government of Guatemala, came back in triumph last week to his country's capital. Guatemalans greeted him with firecrackers, kisses and backslapping embraces. At the bunting-draped central plaza, where 20,000 people yelled themselves hoarse, a huge picture of the rebel leader hung from the palace and cathedral bells pealed joyously. Later, as he had said he would, Castillo Armas dined in the palace...
...Cover) In Guatemala, a lush, green little country only 1,000 miles from the U.S.. anti-Communist and pro-Communist forces were locked in battle this week. What kind of war was it? Guatemala's Communist-line government called it "aggression" and "invasion," and shrilled accusations against its neighbors, including the U.S. The lightly armed insurgents who moved in over the eastern border from Honduras called themselves the Army of Liberation, took for their motto "God and Honor," and urged all true Guatemalans to join them against the government and its Red friends. The first actual shooting came...
...Communist morale is high; French morale is shaken; Vietnamese morale is low. 3) The Communists already hold two-thirds of the Delta by day, almost all of it by night; the Delta population-except in the cities, with their anti-Communist refugees-is considered either pro-Communist or neutral...
Civil War? The rumors' preoccupation with military affairs reflected a fear that anti-Communist army officers will eventually desert Arbenz and that he in turn will try to form armed militia units among the Communist-controlled unions of laborers and farmers, thereby bringing on a bloody civil war. Tribuna Popular published photographs of strapping farmhands over captions that said they would "take up arms if necessary to defend the fatherland against Yankee monopolists and interventionists." The threatening implication was clear: in a showdown, the pro-Communist regime will depend for survival on guns in the irresponsible hands...
Guatemalans were looking nervously over their shoulders last week, as the pro-Communist government of President Jacobo Arbenz began to crack down on its opponents. A dozen prominent citizens made sudden dashes for asylum in foreign embassies; hundreds went into hiding. The country's leading aviator climbed into his Cessna and fled to El Salvador. The chief of the anti-Communist Workers Committee, newly named to the post after the body of the former chief was found floating in Lake Atitlán, disappeared. Plain-clothes police bustled around the capital, searching houses, running down fugitives, laying ambushes...