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UNDERSTAND TERMS OP SETTLEMENT ANNOUNCEDUNE OFA INST
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FED IT COMPANY TX/tb3xbz ARE FAVORABLE TO CGMPinT, LESS THAN WORKERS EXPECTED,
EOUDURAS
AKD LESS FAVORABLE TEAS TERMS DEMANDED BT STRIKERS IK/fcEBKXI. WE ARE
CONVINCED THIS OFFERS EXCEPTIONALLY FAVORABLE OPPORTUNITY FOR CALLTGKRIS BT
SUITABLE PUBLIC STATEMENT TO DISSOCIATE HIMSELF AND HIS MOVEMENT FROM FRUIT
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COMPANY AND TO DEKONSTEATV/XXXJ NDEPENDENCE OF PBPRIME GOVERNMENT.
HAVE IN HIND SOMETHING ALONG FOLLOWING LINES, EX IH WHICH ASCHAH
PEBSCHATXY INTERESTED!
QUOTE: A. THE SETTLEMENT ENGINEERED BT THE ARBENZ REGIME THROUGH FAN JUL
/ mm, MINISTER OP ECONOMY AHD CONGRESSMAN PELLSCER ON TERMS FAR LESS
FAIORABLE TO THE WORKERS THAR THOSE THE STRIKERS ARE STILL HOLDING OUT FOB
IN/VUttfiWaELLOUT OP/fcnmX WORKERS IN THE INTERESTS OF THE
CONSOLIDATION CP COMMUNIST CONTROL OP THE COUNTRY. FACED WITH MOUNTING
CRITICISM INSIDE AMI OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY FOR THEIR SUPPRESSION OF
CIVIL LIBERTIES, ARMING OF CMMUNIS'l IjRGANTEATIOKS, AND OTHER
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PREPARATIONS FOR COMPLETE COMMUNIST TAKEOVER, ARBENZ AND COMPANY HAVE TRIED,ONCESSION TO THE FRUIT COMPANY, TO BUY OFF THE OPPOSITION OF PBPRIME WHILE THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE ca<MUNIST DICTATORSHIP GOES FORWARD. ARBEHZ PREFERRED TO SACRIFICE THE WORKERS* INTERESTS TO THOSEOREIGN COMPANY RATHER THAN TO THROW OUT THE REPRESENTATIVES OF COMMUNIST IMPERIALISM IN HIS OWN GOVERNMENT.
B. THIS CONCESSION TO THE FRUIT COMPANY WILL PLACATE NO ONE. GBAT
PATRIOTIC CITIZENS CF/&GDOECT KNOW THAT THE COMPANY'S POWER IN THE
COUNTRY HAS BEEN TOO GREAT IN THEOR THE FUTURE THESE PATRIOTS
ARE DETERMINED TO EXERRJISE MORE CONTROL OVER THEIR COT ECONOMIC
FATE AND NOT TO ALLOW TBIE ECONOMIC LIFE OF THE COUNTRY TO BE SO
LARGELY IN THE HANDSINGLE FOREIGN ENTERPRISE, THEY SEE NO
VIRTUE IN AN ATTEMPT TO flPPEASE THE COMPANY AND NO EVIDENCE THAT
COMMUNIST ASSOCIATES WILL REFRAIN FROM 7RKIR ATTACKS ON
RELIGION AND ON PERSONAL tfJBERTY OR THEIR THREATS AGAINST THE PRIVATE
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C. IP THEEBR>ffiW IS MISLED BY ARBEHZ' ACT OF APPEASE* MSBT THIS HILL SIMPLY BE EVIDENCE THAT ITORE INTERESTED IN THE SELFISH PROPERTY INTEREST OF THE FRUIT COMPANY THAN IT IS IN HALTING COMMUNIST INTERFERENCE WITH THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. THIS IS THE TIMS FOR THE PBPRIME GOVERNMENT TO LIVE DP TO ITS FINE PROFESSIONS, TO DISSOCIATE ITSELF FROM THE FRUIT COMPANY, AND TO HELP THE OTHER AMERICAN REPUBLICS TO ACHIEVE ARD MAINTAIN THEIR FREEDOM FROM BOTH COMMUNIST SUBVERSION AND NORTH AMERICAN IMPERIALISM. UNQUOTE. 3. THE PURPOSE OF THE ABOVE IS*.
TAKE THE ISSUE OF ANTI-IMPERIALISM OOT OF ARBENZ'TAINT HTM WTTfl ACCUSATION OF SURRENDER TO FRUIT COMPANY ANDWORKERS.
CRITICIZE IN OENERAL TERMS COMPANY'S COMPLETE CONTROL OVER
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/ UEOSxr ECONOMIC LIFE WITHOUT HOWEVER USING LANGUAGE SO STRONG OR SO SPECIFIC AS TOEW REGIME.
CRITICIZE AT LEAST BY IMPLICATION PAST PBPRIMETHESE THREE THEMES WOULD STRONGLY COUNTER ANYUPPET OP EITHER FRUIT COMPANY OR PBPRIME GOVERNMENT.
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S. SURE YOU REALIZE THIS APPROACH DESIRED HOT ONLY TO ACHIEVE PP RESULTS INTERNALLY IN WSBURNT BUT FOR EXTLTCUlL CONSUMPTION TO MINIMIZE IMPRESSION OF PBPRIME INVOLVEMENT AND TO BUILD UP OUR OWN COVER. REGARD THIS AS URGENT AND IMPORTANT MOVE.
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