Guatemalans Give Vent to Ill-feelings

Chronicle (Levin), 4 March 1948, Page 5

Guatemalans Give Vent to Ill-feelings

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' Received V\ ednesd.ay, U.U p.m. GUATEMALA. CITY, Mar. 2. A total censorship was clamped on British correspondents in Guatemala as. some llOjOOO Guatemalans yellhd and hai'angated in a" mass fjemonstfatioh around the British legation in Guatemala City 'today. A '■ despateh was smuggled out, the Guatemalan authorities refusing all cable and. .telephoiie t'adilities. The huge mob assembled putside the Presidential Palace where Preside'nt Arevalo and Gabinet saluted from the - balcony: Banners rpad: "America. • for Atnericans. Down with Britaiil. Belize is ours. ' ' ' Ghanting- the national arithem -in a growing roar, tlie mob marched on the legation where the pqlice lined the street. The leaders loapt Im cars*; to uarangue the erowds. The Guatemalans made no attempt to hide their feelings l'rom the party ot British eorre.spondents. Witliin half aii hour- a visit. was' made to the local uewspaper office and tlie -correspondents,.. on-Jeaving, were (^onfronted witli hastily improi'ised placards reading"Belize is. ours," Newspaper headlines also read: "iCitizens of Belize, repudiate tlie provocative English war sliips. "