ZOVa So

the United Fruit Company deesn't care for
the people but are interested only in
getting their money, which is, as I see it
about the truth. It looks to me as though
the United Fruit Company will probably go
the way of the British in India if they
continue to subjugate these people and

keep them from advancing as they normally
would even as a primitive society. I think
that their desire to go against the Company
is more than Communistically inspired.

Met a young kid who is going to the
National College and he tells me that gas
is 40 cents a gallon in most parts of
Guatemala and that the roads beyond the
immediately outlying areas of Guatemala
City are in poor condition. His father
runs a drug store and pharmacy in Guatemala
City.

A talking parrot in the back yard has
been scolding, laughing, talking and yell-
ing like mad. It mixes in with the
turkeys, ducks, pigeons and vultures.

This morning when I arrived I gave a
letter to the hotel clerk and told him to
send it off and I would pay the postage.
This afternoon the letter was still on. his
desk, so I took it down to the post office
and mailed it myself. Each stamp is a 1/10
of a Quetzal. The mail service seems to be
conducted on an informal basis. Might as
well use the rest of the paper.

For supper, had soup, bread, butter,
another whole fish which tasted like it had
mellowed too long, a plate of boiled meat--
looked like vulture meat!--beans, potatoes,