Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-31
Guatemala Charges
Declared Aimed 10
Ruin Caracas Talks
BY The Assoeiossd Press

Guatemalan charges that
Nicaragua and three Latin
American neighbors plotted with
United States approval to topple
President Jacobo Arbenz Guz-
mans Red tinged regime
brought denialS and a counter
charge today that Guatemala
was trying to wreck the inter-
American conference in March.
The Guatemalan charge that
Nicaragua has conspired with Ell
Salvador, the Dominican Repub-
lie and Venezuela to invade
Guatemala and GUST Mr.. Arbenz
was branded false at Managua
by Nicaragua's President AN
astasio Somoza.
He asserted documents pur-
porting to link Nicaragua to any
such plot were spurious.
The United States States De-
partment in a statement said the
left-wing Guatemalan govern
ment is supporting "a Commu-
mist effort to disrupt the work"
Of the inter-American foreign
ministers conference at Caracas,
Venezuela. Secretary of State
Dulles is expected to come home
from the Big Four meeting in
Berlin to attend the sessions.
Moscow Visit Cited.
Besides branding the Guate-
malan charge ridiculous and
untrue" the State Department
limited that the accusations may
be linked with the recent visit to
Moscow of Victor Manuel Cutter
rez, whom it described as "a
notorious Communist and leader
of the Communist dominated"
Guatemalan Labor Confedera-
ton. and Jose Manuel Fortuny,
head of the Guatemalan Com
munist Party.
The State Department said
the Guatemalan charge was a
climax to an increasingly men
daciouS propaganda campaign
and of attacks on freedom of ex-
preston and democratic labor
organization in Guatemala.
It said Mr.. Arbenz has filled
Government press and radio Of
fees with "a group of dedicated
propagandists of communism :.
who have long record of circu-
lating false charges, typically. !
Communist in their technique"
Without celebrating. the United |.
States statement said the recent |
shift of Guillermo Toriello,
Guatemalan Ambassador to the
United States, who went home to
become foreign minister may be
linked with the developments.
Retorts From Other Quarters.
The charges also brought re-
torts from other quarters:
Ciudad Trujillo - Dominican
foreign Office: The invention
of those who profess the ideas of
atheistic Communism. The Do
minican Republic has no link !.
with Guatemala ''either as
friends or enemies of the Com
munist government of Arbenz."
San Salvador - Gen. Miguel
Ydigoras Fuentes. an opponent |
of Mr.. Arbenz in the 1850 presi-
Dental race, accused of being a
ring leader in the plot: Absurd"
Ia stupid invention by the re-
gime in power" /
Kansas City, Mo-: Col. Anas-
tasio Somoza Debayle, son of
Nicaraguas president, and also !
labelled a ring leader: The Qua /
temalanS ARE just seeing
monkeys in the air"
Hamburg, Germany-H. F.
Cordes Co., accused of sending i
arms to Somoza Debayle: Never
traded with any plotterS. Only /,
Guatemalan who received goods |!
from us was the Arbenz regime
itself"
However, one Latin American
diplomat named by Guatemala {
lost his job. Panama'S govern i
ment announced it had fired
Jorge Isaac Delgado as CONNER
cial attache in the Panamanian
Embassy in Managua. He was
mentioned in the Guatemalan
communique as contact man be-
tween President SomoZa and !
Guatemalan exileS. |
The Panamanian foreign min i
istry announced yesterday it |
would investigate the Guatema-
Ian charges and disclosed that |
Nicaragua had also complained |
of Delgado's activities. ]