University of Pennsylvania Foreign Policy Research Institute. creator mixed material monographic spa 60,000 94 58 27 Correspondence, minutes, financial accounts, and other records and papers of Guatemalan government agencies, political parties, labor unions, and private individuals, nationally and internationally, compiled by the Guatemalan Comité Nacional de Defensa contra El Comunismo. Pertains to the period of reforms and to the social and political upheaval from the overthrow of Jorge Ubico to the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán by Carlos Castillo Armas. Documents the emergence and growth of political parties and labor unions during a decade of change, the sweep of social reform attempted by Arbenz and his predecessor, Juan José Arévalo, the struggle of Arbenz's government for survival, and the influence on it domestically and internationally of socialists and communists. Includes correspondence between Guatemalans and foreign individuals and organizations, including many communists or socialists. Open to research. Microfilm edition available, no. 11,555. Copy 2 : reels 1-11, 13, 15-42. Microfilm of originals in the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Collection material in Spanish. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011051 Arbenz Guzmán, Jacobo 1913-1971 Castillo Armas, Carlos 1914-1957 Ubico, Jorge 1878-1946 Comité Nacional de Defensa contra El Comunismo. Communism Guatemala Labor unions Guatemala Socialism Guatemala Guatemala History 20th century Guatemala Politics and government Guatemala Social conditions mm 79035881 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011051 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011051.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011051 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011051.3 Open to research. DLC 790419 20260227111656.0 mm 79035881