REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES pe: DECLASSIFIED Althority Stateletter Inhz by me, NARA 02:0 24 18 LA AM RECO OF LEGATION OF THE UNITED, STATES OF AMERICA 1Bunday an Fosé, Costa Rica No. 416 May 11, 1931 Tust.
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WAY 28 1931 Rosiorso a Carta DEPARTMENT OF STATE 818. 00 16 The Honorable The Secretary of State Washington JUN 12. 1931 FILED 2 Sir:818. 00 general Conditions (35 Referring to my despatch No. 406 page 24) of May 4, 1931, have the honor to transmit herewith copy and translation of an Executive Decree issued on May 6th and published in LA GACETA of May 9, 1931, which prohibits the circulation in the mails of all classes of communist publications.
It may interest the Department to know that one of the first to be affected by the new decree was Joaquin García Monge, editor of the weekly REPERTORIO AMERICANO, a publication which has furnished various articles