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GUAROIAN "BY ARRANGEMENT WITH LE MONDE" JUNENOY MARCEL

N1EDERGANG ENTITLEO "GUATEMALA INOUCHNG COPIES.

ARTICLE CLAIMS AMERICANS EXAGGERATINGCOMMUNISM IN GUATEMALA. ARTICLE PORTRAYS GCP AS EMBRYONIC

OUT HAVING CAPABLE DEMAGOGIC LEADERS AND BEST ORGANIZED. GUATEMALAN SUPPORTERS PORTRAYED AS CASUAL ILLITERATE PEASANTS.

POINTS OUT. APPREHENSION RE

COMMUNISM GUATEMALA WITH EXPROPRIATION UNITED FRUIT PROPERTY. A

U.S. DILEMMA ALSO ALLEGED (AND REPORTED INACCURATELY IN REF) TO

WIT, IF WASH FAILS HONOR SACRED NOW-INTERVENTION PRINCIPLE THERE

WILL BE INDIGNATION SOUTH IF RlO GRANDE BUT. DRAWS BACK,

CONTAGION WILL SPREAD AND RIGHT tVING TOTALITARIAN GOV'TS SUPPORTEO

. WILL BE WORE ANO MORE THREATENED. GUATEMALA SAID TT BE SEEKINGOBJECTIVES AS OTHER LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES BUT HAS

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