Word: valo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guatemala City, President Juan José Arévalo watched with delight. Congress had been growing restive, and people had criticized his suspension of civil liberties. Now, as the result of British action, they backed him as never before...
...ringing tones, Arévalo reaffirmed Guatemala's century-old claim to British Honduras. Between notes to London, he composed a resolution to be submitted to the Bogota conference "calling for the disappearance of all colonies on American territory." Then, while his police watched to see that things did not go too far, 2,500 students paraded, ran up the Guatemalan flag on the British Legation flagstaff, plastered the building with stickers proclaiming "Pirates in Tuxedos!"-"Death to John Bull...
...government newspaper in Guatemala City had set off the incident that excited the British Admiralty. Jeering at Guatemala's army, the paper had asked why it did not "occupy Belize and show that Guatemalan soldiers were useful for more than parades." Though President Juan José Arévalo promptly closed the paper for this insult to the army, the incident gave the British a fair reason for a show of strength. Argentina and Chile, which had been needling Britain in Antarctica (TIME, March 1), could be expected to take notice...
Last week, as Royal Marines from the Sheffield went ashore at Belize, Guatemalans called on their army for protection from "a British invasion." President Arévalo asked the U.S. to defend Latin American claims against Britain lest the inter-American system collapse. Citizens demanded 200% duties on all British goods. At week's end, there was loud talk of breaking diplomatic relations...
Last week, another American neighbor turned on him. Guatemala refused to accept the ambassador proposed by Trujillo, formally broke relations with the Dominican Republic. Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, who never forgets that his country got rid of its own dictator, General Jorge Ubico, in 1944, pointed a democratic finger of scorn. Trujillo, he said, had corrupted "republican practices into monarchical practices." With rigged elections like last May's, he added, Dictator Trujillo could rule "for the next four centuries...