GUATEMALA: Visit to the Old Country

Although Guatemala's Red-lining ex-President Jacobo Arbenz has never visited Switzerland, many a tie links him to that tight little European democracy. He is of Swiss descent on his father's side and still has relatives there. He chose Swiss banks to hold the plunder, reportedly $6,000,000, that came into his hands while he was President. And it was in Zurich that an Arbenz henchman last year negotiated the purchase of $10 million worth of Communist arms. If the President who almost delivered Guatemala to the Reds now wanted to visit Moscow headquarters to talk over the past and future, he...

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