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...major constitutional guarantee, habeas corpus, had been no more than a poor joke for weeks in police-ridden Guatemala, the decree's biggest effect was on the opposition press. Cables were censored, chiefly for news of arrests and escapes into asylum; local papers-except the brashly Communist Tribuna Popular-were splashed with white space where items had been killed...
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...
Lacerda then persuaded 3,400 contributors to buy $50 shares to launch his own paper, Tribuna da Imprensa. When Dictator Vargas came back as President, after five years out of power, Lacerda gave him no peace. He exposed Communist infiltration in the foreign office, forced the government to start to clean house. A fierce opponent of Brazil's national security law, making it an offense to attack "agents of public order," Lacerda violated the law by printing Page One stories accusing police of graft. He was carted off to jail, said boldly: "I feel it is a great honor...
...Godfrey Lowell Cabot, 92, father of John Moors Cabot, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. The other three 1953 winners: Crede H. Calhoun, New York Times Panama correspondent; Ismael Perez Castro, director of Ecuador's El Universe; Arturo Oscar Schaerer, editor of Paraguay's La Tribuna...
Last week Chateaubriand's time came. Under the nationalistic constitution of Brazil, only native-born Brazilians can own, publish or edit newspapers. A telephone tip to another anti-Wainer editor, Tribuna da Imprensa's crusading Carlos Lacerda, had advised him to look into Wainer's nationality. Acting together, Lacerda and Chateaubriand assigned eleven reporters and five lawyers to sleuth out the facts, then blared them in Page One headlines and on radio and TV. The tipster was right: Wainer's mother had arrived from Bessarabia (now Soviet Russia) in 1915-three years after Sammy was born...