REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Praha ayme, NARA Date 2498 200 taot tant, 13 e uruosa axrul ocourrod very shortly after the return to the country of Manuel Castro Quesada, has led his enanies to charge him with complicity in both disturbances. He has stoutly denied this in the local preas, and few who know him. yor those who are not partioularly tiendly to hin, feel that no 18 actually quilty. Others lay the blame on the small group who are known to have comani atle The Minister of Pablle detety advised me in a interview this morning that the officials have not convinced themselves of just what is back of the movement. Ho feels that st was just a mad desire to pillage and lºot on the part of Arguedas, mo was able to enlist originally a following of some 38 followers, made up largely from the ranks of the unemployed laboring olasann. Axpuedas hingelt, now css that he has been captivad, has made a public statement to the street that he alone engineered the whole arrair and ampumes all responsibility therefor, adding that it had nothing to do with the local political situation nor should the Communists as an organization de blamed because of the fact that among the number of his followers there were several members thereof. The leaders of the Counist group also deny any knowledge of or complicity in the incident, as is quite natural.
The practice of the Government to refer to the instigators probabi Irům y mi, wt. the of administration next May, they will all be liberated.
The regret is expressed by many that the famous ley de Haga was not invoked against the leader, Arguedas, and that in the manner the leader at least might have been made