Word: yanqui
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...unworked Sundays, improved housing, free medical care, severance pay and paid vacations. None of these provisions are yet in force in Honduras, although United Fruit workers are the highest paid in the country. The difference gave Guatemalan Reds fuel for propaganda denouncing United Fruit and "im-perialismo Yanqui." The result was the current strike...
Guatemala's anti-Yanqui bosses muscled in on another old-line U.S. company last week. The firm was W. R. Grace & Co., which for 25 years had managed the lightering and warehouse operations at the Pacific port of San José through a local affiliate in which Grace held a 64% stock interest. After refusing to renew the port company's permit, the government "intervened" in its affairs but ordered Grace officials to run the port until a new management could be found. Guatemalans heard that the owners would be forced to part with enough stock shares...
...Prestes, is only a colony of the U.S. Even the U.S.-Brazil Joint Commission's plan for better roads and ports is just a trick for the U.S. to get war materials out of the country. Nationalists and others interested in building up a Brazilian economy free from yanqui rule should take heed, said Prestes, to these proposals: 1) annulment of all treaties with the U.S., 2) confiscation of all capital and enterprises belonging to "American monopolists," and 3) cancellation of Brazil's debt...
Arriving in Argentina for a brief weekend visit as part of his Latin American fact-finding and good-will mission, Milton Eisenhower received an all-out welcome from that old yanqui-baiter, Juan Perón. The Peronista press proclaimed: "The Argentine people have again set back their American calendars to zero hour, day one." The President took his guest to the prizefights and to a rip-roaring soccer match. At lunches and dinners they talked for several hours. Likeliest reason for Perón's big switch: he hopes for trade and financial assistance from the Eisenhower Administration...
...Milton Eisenhower headed south this week for more looking and listening, it appeared that one of the key points of his tour might be Argentina, which was included in the itinerary only at the last minute and after notable White House reluctance. In Buenos Aires that old yanqui'-baiter Juan Peron showed every sign of getting ready to roll out the red carpet for the U.S. President's brother. Peron had recalled personable Ambassador Hipolito Jesus Paz from Washington, presumably to help organize the welcome. Last week his regime suddenly let up on its campaign to drive...