REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Po DECLASS! HED Aphority State better Mohr ey ME, NARA 02:0 2498 RECO otor LEGATION OF THE the MINITÈD STATES OF AMERICA 101 José, Costa Rica April 11, 1931 No. 374 COMERY APR 23 31 DIVISION OF LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS DIVISION OF EASTERN EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
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The Honorable The Secretary of State Washington to Guatemaly Mehiwenty Sir:HE IS have the honor to report that recent conversations with the Ministers for oreign Affairs, Gobernación and Public Safety, convince me that Costa Rica, in the first place not at all a promising field for the introductida en and spread of communism, by having rid itself almost entirely of the relatively small (numerically) foreign element which was believed to have come to the country to forward this cause, has apparently, for the time being at least, become relatively free from any systematic activities along these lines.
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