Abstract

Aggression Is the Word: The Guatemala Crisis

This article focuses on the Guatemala Crisis and related political developments and issues. Guatemala had laid before the Council a charge of aggression, citing acts which had taken place in the previous few days and the events leading up to them. But the American representative, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., rejected the complaint on the ground, voiced earlier by the State Department, that the disturbance in Guatemala was simply an internal revolt, not an aggression. A surprisingly large number of public figures, including some outstanding liberal journalists, have been supporting a "get tough" policy with Guatemala, advising measures which range from total blockade to encouragement of a military coup against the President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán's government.