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...retiring President was Juan José Arévalo, who, after the 1944 revolution, had been called to the post from Argentine exile, had confounded the prophets by surviving 28 revolutionary plots and serving out his full six-year term. His successor: Colonel Jacobo Arbenz, 37, son of a Swiss pharmacist, onetime Defense Minister under Arévalo...
Under "Spiritual Socialist" Arévalo, who seems to believe that he has led his people through the same kind of revolution as Mexico's, Guatemala became the hemisphere's most left-wing country. In their zeal to proclaim their independence of the U.S., Arévalo's followers fell under the influence of anti-yanqui propaganda put out by local Communists, and accepted Red leadership in their trade unions. Arévalo gave all moral and material aid he could to the Caribbean Legion's attempts to overthrow rightist dictatorships in Nicaragua, Honduras...
...Arévalo's successor is anything but an idealist and dreamer. Colonel Arbenz is a soldier, whose road to the presidency was suddenly cleared one day in July 1949 when the popular favorite for the succession, Army Boss Francisco Araña, was cut down by assassins' bullets. In his first speech, after donning the blue & white sash of office last week, he was guarded and noncommittal. His new cabinet reflected the left-center coalition that had elected him. As his foreign minister he picked a left-winger, but he also assigned an important place as minister...
Frankly, it looks to me as though Mr. Ar-berry may be trying to sell his own icing...
...army will be in a very good position to guarantee free elections." Nothing had really changed. Paz Tejada, who owed his present job to ex-Defense Minister Arbenz, had delivered the army's support to its old boss when he most needed it. And Juan José Arévalo was still president, having survived the 28th attempt against his regime in his five years in office...