Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sovereign state on the grounds that it is effectively controlled by a government which repudiates the authority of Peking and cannot be dislodged except by the defeat of the United States in war, just as the People's Republic, which was helped to power by Russia, cannot be overthrown except by the defeat of Russia. The British official doctrine is the "realist" one that recognition does not imply approval, but merely acceptance in international relations of an effective and apparently stable rule over a particular territory. It would be well for Britain to be consist ent in its realism...
...Reds. What kind of regime would Castillo Armas' be? Since he marched under the banner of antiCommunism, he will doubtless deal sternly with any real Reds or their sympathizers in the overthrown government of former President Jacobo Arbenz-if he can catch them. Of Arbenz and his Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello, Castillo Armas said: "These men are criminals . . . responsible for torturing and killing many people." He froze the assets of the ex-President and 99 of his cohorts, and seized Arbenz' 6,700-acre showplace cotton plantation...
...Yankeeism swept through some of the hemisphere's countries. Students squawked in demonstrations in Panama, Uruguay, Chile Peru, Cuba, Argentina and Honduras: a U.S. flag was burned in Chile. But there was none of that in Guatemala, where the U.S. role was understood and deeply appreciated. As the overthrown regime's victims were dug out of their graves and the luckier survivors emerged from their cells Guatemalans raised grateful cheers for the U.S. and for Ambassador Peurifoy...
...revolution-torn years that followed, 18 dictators ruled Guatemala, beginning with the swineherd Rafael Carrera (1839-65) and reaching a savage climax under the megalomaniac General Jorge Ubico, who took power in 1931, held the Indians' wages as low as 3? a day, and was overthrown and exiled in 1944. Jacobo Arbenz is the country's second elected President since then...
...quarter of one per cent of the teaching staff involved in investigations. In general, the Corporation has handled the investigation problem well. It has recognized that the teachers implicated are neither dangerous spies nor maligned heroes, and remembered that certain of the University's principles cannot be lightly overthrown. Yet, it has left the door open for more severe action if ever circumstances warrant...