814.00/1464: Telegram
The Ambassador in Guatemala (Long) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:24 p.m.]
378. Largely inspired by recent successful revolutions in Salvador and Ecuador1 under [ground] opposition to Ubico2 is intensifying. While the administration is firmly intrenched, following are highlights of opposition movement: University students are holding a mass meeting this afternoon ostensibly to demand faculty changes but an anti-Ubico demonstration is predicted. A movement to boycott celebration of founding of liberal party on June 30 is growing among teachers, students, and opposition groups and handbills are said to be circulating calling for abstention from celebration.
A confidential American informant was sent to the Embassy this morning by a Cabinet Minister to report that a group of doctors and nurses are planning a sitdown strike along Salvadoran lines and to inquire whether American doctors and nurses could be counted on to handle emergency cases. I replied that this would constitute intervention in internal politics in violation of our well known policy. I do not take an alarmist view of situation but the Government is known to be nervous and there is a widespread belief that a climax may be approached by June 30 or soon thereafter.