GUATEMALA STATES CONDITION FOR BORDER REOPENING
NEW YORK, March 11. The Guatemalan Foreign Minister (Mr Enrique Minoz Meany) has informed American businessmen that the border, of Guatemala and. British Honduras will be reopened as soon as the cruiser Sheffield leaves Belize. Vice-Admiral Sir William Tennant, Commander-in-Chief, West Indies, said today, however, that there were no plans to withdraw his command ship from this area. An American timber company which is felling mahogany forests in Guatemala for shipment through British Honduras, is losing 5000 dollars a day because of the border ban. If and when the Sheffield goes, it is expected that the cruiser Devonshire will stay behind. It is generally believed in Belize that one of the chief results of the current incident will be the stationing of a permanent, if small, force in the colony, which was previouslly totally unguarded.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1948, Page 5
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