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...shelling the capital's other two forts. A lucky hit on a powder magazine won the day spectacularly for Arbenz & friends. He and Colonel Francisco Javier Arana got a democratic constitution written and ran off a free election. It was won handily by Juan José Arévalo, a Guatemalan intellectual just back from exile in Argentina...
Reds & Riches. Arévalo's role, as it turned out, was to usher into dictator-ridden Guatemala such innovations as free speech, a free press, political parties and trade unions-in effect, to consolidate the revolution. Fighting off 29 plots and counterrevolutions, suspending constitutional liberties 13 times, Arévalo barely managed to hang on through six years. He never had time or energy to do much about his pet political theory, "Spiritual Socialism," a kind of fuzzy, nonmaterialistic revision of Communism...
Farmer Folke Trana, of Valo, Sweden, was plowing a boggy field when his plow dug out of the gooey dirt a crude wooden dragon's head about a foot long. Farmer Trana was agreeably surprised, but when he reported his find to the State Historical Museum, its experts were delighted. The carved head, they decided, might be part of a "High Seat" of the Viking...
Sweden's King Gustaf VI, an avid amateur archaeologist, spent a whole day at the Valo High Seat diggings and acted as excited as a schoolboy. When he left, he gave Archaeologist Holmquist a rousing kick in the seat of the pants: the good old Swedish way of wishing him the best of luck in his follow-up diggings...
Guatemala's Communist-coddling, capitalist-baiting left-wing regime has shown Guatemalans time & again that an avowedly pro-labor government can be a harsh employer. Since Jacobo Arbenz, hand-picked successor of fuzzy "Spiritual Socialist" Juan José Arévalo, took over as President last March, five groups of government employees have gone out on strike for a fairer deal...