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...Quiet. The President might have done better to say nothing at all. By issuing even a mild pronouncement, he needlessly conveyed an impression that he continued to consider himself the ar biter of the industry's price decisions. And tactically, the statement was a blunder: by virtually inviting steel companies to go ahead with "selected price adjustments," he made it virtually impossible to fight later on if he decided that the increases were excessive after...
Last year, exiled Juan José Arévalo, 58, the Yankee hater (The Shark and the Sardines) who made friends with the Communists during his 1945-51 term as President, announced that he was returning to run for President again. Ydigoras let it be known that he would hale Arévalo into court if he set foot in Guatemala. Then he had a better idea: Why not let Arévalo return and beat him at an election? Ydigoras could do this by his control of the election machinery. Ydigoras' own candidate was Roberto Alejos, a planter...
...coup was not aimed at Ydigoras-one of Central America's stoutest anti-Castro fighters, though weakened by a corrupt and ineffective regime at home. It was, instead, designed to prevent the comeback of a man cordially hated both by Ydigoras and his soldiers: Juan José Arévalo, 58, President of Guatemala from 1945 to 1951, an anti-Yankee (The Shark and the Sardines) leftist who permitted Communists in his government. Living in exile in Mexico City, Arévalo promised to return to Guatemala on March 31, install himself as a presidential candidate in next November...
Last week, as Arévalo's return drew near, Guatemala was declared in a "state of siege," and travel was restricted. Somehow Arévalo slipped through the net into Guatemala. In a secret interview to newsmen he called himself a democrat: "I do not like Communism and will not be a Communist." Then he disappeared. A few hours later, the military made their move. A communiqué after the coup promised to restore constitutional rights "when the country is ready,'' and "extremists have been eradicated...
Obvious agents and big-name Communists are relatively easy to track. Francisco Juliao, leader of Brazil's troublemaking Peasant Leagues, was in Cuba last month; so was Brazilian Communist Boss Luis Carlos Prestes. When he was ar rested last October, Venezuelan Commu nist Fabricio Ojeda had been logged into Cuba 13 times, so often that he was nicknamed "Lieutenant Hilton." for the suite he occupied in Havana's expropriated Hilton hotel...