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+ o% Agile i ae, we et ost Mrrtinez, were ret chiefs of et: te in the “qr] co recognize diplomatically Franco's rover: » a “Infuripted at such an attitude, the then chief of the Comintern, Dimitrov, declared in an interview with the Mexican Communist, Perez Chavez: 'I con aveure you that those two Fascists in Guatemala and El Salvador will pay dearly for thei: pro-Franco attitude,’ A few months later, the police of Guatemala discovered tha Dimitrov's threat was not just verbal, He received information from Mexico regar: ing Garcie Granados' efforts to overthrow-Ubico and’Martinez and their re;imes, "The activities of Granados in 1944 took Ubico by surprise, obligating him t: abdicate, Ponce replacing him. There was an arned uprising against Ponce's fover ment, makin- Garcia Granados president of the legislative assembly as well as chi: of the country. “Granados' first political act was to break off relations with Spain, At th: same time his ereny, Romero, attempted a similar action in El Salvador, Martinez also fell, but the new president of that Reoublic, Castaneda Castro, was able to stamp out the act before it could take shape, “Garcia Granados is today his country's ambassador ;in Weshington and its del: before the United Nations, He was the key man in all the actions against Spain. ile was so in league with those circles that an American newspaperman mistook him for a meuber of the Russian delegation and Mrs “Roosevelt though he was one of Giral's ministers, "From the North Anerican capital, he continues to dominate Guatemala through puvvete. In all aspects, the life of the small country reflects his instructions, The new constitution makes life impossible for the church, against which has been vnleashed a wave of persecution, Terror is becoming common amonc the inflamed Indians, with Marzist slogans the order of the day, The Communist cancer has dee; allowed to grow there, "Thouch late, Garcia Granados hes accomplished Dimitrov's designs, The coun lives in a constant state of ihsecurity and today sichs for the iron hand of Gene Ubico, pictured once as a dictator and fascist, and now dend in exile, This is o: the beginning, The plans aim towards the inclusion of all Central America. "During the time of the celebrated Mexicon president, Hlief\Calles, the famov Alexandra Kollontay (sic) was the Soviet ambassador in Mexico, the mother of indianistic communism end promoter of thte famous intimate gatherings at her chalet in the colonia San Miguel, There the Red Siren, dressed as*a China Poblani toasted her suests, a multitude of artists, pampered composers ‘and youthful intellectuals with political ambitions, with vodka, whiskey, cigarettes, doubtful women and caviar canaper. Amonr the pleasures were good quantities of Communist doctrine, oe | =e te ae red WAmong those who attemled these functions are.a dozen men who have attained ¢ certain if doubtful fame; Lombardo, Toledano, leader of the inter~American Commun: labor organization, Hays! detia Torre, chief of the Communist iniian party in Feru, Romulo. Betancourt, president of the Communist ‘government of Venezuela, Ceca mei Selvadoran Communist, Herman, Laborde head of the Mexican Communiet Pary, Contreri -Wabarca, Chilean Communist chief, andgphers, “Thece men continue to work with all thepolitical materials of Latin Averica, the problem of Central American unioniem, the problem of Britisn Hondures, the riotlen of frustrated nationalism, the economic problems, etc. 100 -F/10/S -ad