Word: valo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, President-elect Arévalo, a realist, had sent a mission to Washington in search of the Lend-Lease arms reported to have been promised to his predecessor. Dictator Federico Ponce. The mission, which traveled by plane, was surrounded by as many cloud banks of secrecy as a Big Three meeting. Some members swooped out of the clouds long enough to be recognized in Chicago. Others, supposed to be in Washington, had gone officially underground...
Guatemalans went to the polls quietly, voted for a congress to support Presidential Candidate Juan José Arévalo, who was pledged to further reforms. Even the conservative minority conceded that the elections had been free...