John Foster Dulles: Radio and Television Address on Communism in Guatemala Year: 1954

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John Foster Dulles: Radio and Television Addresson Communism in Guatemala

https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844278.book-part-028

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Abstract

Tonight I should like to talk with you about Guatemala. It is the scene of dramatic events. They expose the evil purpose of the Kremlin to destroy the inter- American system, and they test the ability of the American States to maintain the peaceful integrity of this hemisphere. For several years international communism has been probing here and there for nesting places in the Americas. It finally chose Guatemala as a spot which it could turn into an official base from which to breed subversion which would extend to other American Republics. This intrusion of Soviet despotism was, of course, a direct challenge to our Monroe Doctrine, the first and most fundamental of our foreign policies. . . .