Sublime

Throughout the summer of 1951, the Truman administration pressed the British to negotiate. Acheson told Franks that Mossadegh represented “a very deep revolution, national in character, which was sweeping not only Iran but the entire Middle East.”31 President Truman wrote Attlee that “negotiations should be entered into at once” to prevent a worsen

Cuando, el 18 de junio de 1954, las tropas del Ejército Liberacionista de Castillo Armas cruzaron por tres lugares la frontera de Honduras, el nuevo embajador de Estados Unidos nombrado por la administración de Eisenhower, John Emil Peurifoy, llevaba ya siete meses en Guatemala. Sin exageración podía decirse que con su energía siempre en efervescen

The first target was Guatemala. In October 1944, the country’s fledgling middle class had overthrown the long, brutal dictatorship of General Jorge Ubico, who was closely identified with the United Fruit Company (UFCO), and began an experiment in democracy inspired by Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

The measure that gave Marshall the authority to circumvent it was concealed as a rider to the Army’s annual appropriation bill.32

Truman’s integration of the armed forces in 1948,

Since June 1950, the United States had suffered well over a hundred thousand casualties, including more than twenty-five thousand men killed in action, and the Truman administration appeared to have no plan for ending the conflict.