ABSTRACT
The conclusion of World War II brought into being a new world order. Shifts in the power of developed nation-states had taken place and could no longer be ignored. Colonial empires had been dismembered and their components "repartitioned" among the extended domains of the various new and/or surviving efficient nation-states, metropoles. Occasionally, a subservient nation-state may seek to attain a higher degree of autonomy than that concomitant with the limits of its assigned position within the bloc hierarchy. The internal manifestations of the search for a higher degree of autonomy may be a self sustaining developmental effort utilizing existing resources, generally accompanied by the expropriation of property belonging to both nationals and foreigners who control the commanding heights of the economy. The development of Guatemala prior to its challenge to the United States is briefly reviewed to establish the nature of intra-bloc integration.
