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ive ITUAT N_G ta previous reports this observer has had the opportu= nity to point out, that the regime of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman was now fuliu dominated by Communist elements, that the president himself was only a puppet in the hands of the Reds, and that all hope of retrieving him from the grips of international Communism short of a genuine revolution in the country should be shelved, These facts are daiüy implemented by the evolution of affairs in this country, and are but the renewed proof that the | warnings of "Intelligence Digest" issued years ago where not, | as certain people wanted us %to believe, just plain sensationalism and. alamism. At present the grip of Communism is getting ever tighter and every measure of the governement is determined not only to in crease its control, but also to clear the way for a full seizure of power by the wholesale arrest and murder of anto-communists. It is worth noting here, that the Red Spaniards who have the closest links with Moscow, are now pushing for a speed up of the governemental actions, and are demanding absoluie readyness by the beginning of the autumne This observer does not know whether this dateline is due to domestic considerations — as he would be inclined to believe - or to intermational considerations, Suffice it to say, that this was decided during a meeting of Communist leaders of Central America and the Caribbean area held in the first week of May in Guatemala City, meeting which was presided by a special emissary from Russia. This emissary, whose true name we do not know, arrived by air from Mexico tity travelling Ramirez a but this is such a usual neme, like Smith or Brown, so that we would guess that this was just a cover. His Spanish was Castilian, he certainly is not a latin American, and furthermore it was so good, that he certainly must have been a Spaniard § furthermore he gave the impression of a mam of a certain culture, not a tough, He was roughly forty-five, of cultured appearance, more like a travelling big bussinessman. He was well dressed. We do not know how he left again after the secret Conference. The measures which the governement is taking have now a rapid rythm, The first of the measures was a decree by PresiAhi
