Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-21
BY the Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, June
21.-The United Nations Security
Council called unanimously last
night for a ceaSe-f1re in Guate-
mala and for all U. N. members
to withhold aid from the fight
ing forces there.
The action came after the So
Wet Union cast its Goth veto in
Council history on behalf of
Guatemala's leftist government.
The veto defeated a motion to re-
fer the Guatemalan complaint Of
aggression to the Western Hem
spheres regional organization.
the Organization Of American
States.
United States Delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge, jr., Council presi-
dent for June, said the Soviet We
to showed obviously the Russians
have designs" on the Americas.
He warned angrily:
81 say to the Soviet delegate:
Stay out of the Western Hemis.
phere. Don't try to start your
plans and conspiracies here"
Meeting in Washington.
Despite the Russian vote.
Guatemala has already asked
the five-member Inter-American
Peace Committee of the GAS to
help stop the invasion against
President Jacobo Arbenz Guz-
mans government. The COM
mittee scheduled q meeting in
Washington this afternoon to
take UP the request. \
The cease-i1re call was voted
after Guatemalan Delegate Ed
'aardo Castillo -Arriola charged
neighboring Honduras and Mica
ragua, backed by the United
States and the United Fruit Co.,
had connived in an aggression
against Guatemala'S territory by
mercenary expeditionary forces.
Mr.. Lodge hotly defended his
government and denied the
charges. He said information
available to the United States
strongly suggests that the situa-
ton does not involve aggression.
but a revolt of GuatemalanS
against Guatemalans."
The Council took no action on
Guatemala's request that it send
{. peace observation commission
at once Ito prove the CONN.,
vance" of Honduras and Nicara-
qua. Representatives of those
two countries termed the charges
dramatic and tremendous" and
surprising" and said the matter
should be referred to the inter-
American organization.
Council Chamber Packed.
Yesterdays meeting was the
second Sunday Council session
in U.N. history, matching that
of June Is, 1850, on the Korean
war. More than $50 spectators,
correspondents and participants
packed the high-ceilinged Coun-
Gil chamber.
The proceedings were inter-
rupted three times by applause,
which Mr.. Lodges gavel cut of,
and once by a sport-Shirted spec
tator shouting down with the
Guatemalan invasion by the
State Department" U. N. guards
turned the man over to New
York police who booked him on
a disorderly conduct charge and
held him for mental observation.
He identified himself as will
liam Daley of Greenwich Village,
New York City, in care of the
american Labor Party"
The Guatemalan delegate told
the Council his country had been
invaded from Honduras on Fri
day by mercenaries and bombed
by PAT planes of North Amer
lean manufacture, the latter
coming from bases on Nicaragua
and Honduras.
He claimed to have docu-
mentary proof linking the leader
of the invasion, Guatemalar
Exile Col. Carlos Castillo Armas
with Nicaragua and "the gov
eminent of the north" an obvi-
Gus reference to the United
States.
Accuses State Department.
Mr.. Castillo-Arriola accused
the United States State Depart