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Newly democratic Guatemala's university students went on a long-awaited rampage last week. Fourteen years ago Dictator Jorge Ubico had savagely suppressed their traditional Eastertide "Huelga Estudiantil" (Students' Strike); now at last, in the liberal light of President Juan José Arévalo's regime, it roared its way through the laugh-hungry city. Now there was at least twice the oldtime noise, fun, bawdiness...
President Arévalo. His enemies had whispered that he was pro-Argentine because of his long exile in Argentina. So the "strike" featured Gaucho costumes. With a syrupy Argentine accent, a student representing the President wooed a girl named "Guayaba" (tropical fruit, slang for the Presidency). When Guayaba hiked her skirts, she showed a label: "The Treasury." President Arévalo himself watched and laughed...
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...