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

Glossary

• false manifests and false clearances falsified shipping documents and records
• from behind the Iron Curtain from somewhere in the Communist world, in this case Czechoslovakia
• Kremlin technically, a medieval fortress in Moscow, around which government buildings grew, leading to the use of the term as a reference to the Russian or Soviet government as a whole
• Lenin School at Moscow the International Lenin School, which operated from 1926 to 1938 as an institution for the indoctrination of some three thousand foreign youth
• Monroe Doctrine a doctrine formulated in 1823 by John Quincy Adams as secretary of state to President James Monroe, prohibiting outside interference in the Western Hemisphere
• popular front coalitions of mostly leftist parties by which Communists sought to gain control of non-Communist countries
• United Fruit Company a U.S.-based corporation (1899–1970) that exercised enormous influence over nations in and around the Caribbean during the first half of the twentieth century
• used consular agents for political warfare planted propagandists and agitators, disguised as diplomatic personnel, in other countries