Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communist Deputies to Congress led the May Day parade in Guatemala City, carrying a billowing blue-and-white Guatemalan flag. A few paces behind them, bearers flaunted a big portrait of Ho Chi Minh. One of the 45 floats that followed showed a villainous Uncle Sam with blood dripping from one clawlike hand...
Merrill's second editorship, from 1919 to his death in 1940, has been characterized by Bulletin historians as the period of the "frogs of Guatemala." This epithet does not imply that there ever was a Bulletin article specifically discussing Guatemalan frogs, but only that there might as well have been. For as one scans the issues of this 20-year period, and notices the astonishing frequency of articles reporting esoteric scientific field trips, one gets the distinct impression that "the frogs of Guatemala" would be right at home on the cover of the following issue...
...dynamite bast set off by a recently expelled Guatemalan Harvard student near Dunster Bridge in Cambridge, rallied about 500 undergraduates to a "free Puerto rice, free Guatemala" demonstration last night. The riot began at about 10:30 and lasted until midnight...
That is a large order, because few Latin American diplomats see the dangers of world Communism. Their inclination is to shrug off Communism as a local problem, and some even sympathize privately with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello's charge that the U.S. is being outrageously interventionist...
...calling Guatemala's charges "ridiculous and untrue." But State also offered a coolly reasoned explanation of why the white paper had been published at this time. Pointing out that the charge "is perhaps connected . . . with the return from visits to the Soviet Union and Iron Curtain countries of Guatemalan Communists Victor Manuel Gutierrez and Jose Manuel Fortuny," State said: "The United States views the issuance of this false accusation immediately prior to the Tenth Inter-American Conference as a Communist effort to disrupt the work of this conference." In other words, the real plot in the situation was less...