Central American revolutions have caused many a jape from the pens of Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry. Guatemala lived up to the requirements of fiction last week by having three presidents in seven days. It was a serious matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the U. S. State Department. Fortnight ago General Lazaro Chacon, President of Guatemala since 1927, was suddenly stricken with what physicians described as a cerebral hemorrhage, forced to resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate...
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