Document B Source: John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, June 1954. If world communism captures any American State, however small, a new and perilous front is established which will increase the danger to the entire free world and require even greater sacrifices from the American people. This situation in Guatemala had become so dangerous that the American States could not ignore it. At Caracas last March, the American States held their Tenth Inter-American Conference. They then adopted a momentous statement. They declared that "the domination or control of the political institutions of any American State by the international Communist movement... would constitute a threat to the sovereignty and political independence of the American States, endangering the peace of America."

Document B Source: John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, June 1954. If world communism captures any American State, however small, a new and perilous front is established which will increase the danger to the entire free world and require even greater sacrifices from the American people. This situation in Guatemala had become so dangerous that the American States could not ignore it. At Caracas last March, the American States held their Tenth Inter-American Conference. They then adopted a momentous statement. They declared that "the domination or control of the political institutions of any American State by the international Communist movement... would constitute a threat to the sovereignty and political independence of the American States, endangering the peace of America."