REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Inha by ME, NARA 02:0 2498 weeks to strongly cultivate the friendship and assistance of Carlos Maria Jiménex Orti, leader of the PARTIDO REPUBLICANO. This combination seems at the moment the strongest of any which appears in the foreground. EX Probably the most important development in recent days has been the open declaration of ex President nou Ricardo Jiménez, published in the local presa lastot night. The declaration, in mubatanen, follows the abi line of remarks contained 1a despatches Nos. 472 of June 15, 1931 and 474 of June 18, 1931. The exi President had been spending a short vacation on him farm and returned to San José yesterday. To the. reporters who immediately intervieved him, he replied that he was still firmly determined tot to partiodpate 19. the present political campaig. To the insistent requests and activitiee of personal friends caloulated to induce him to raponsider, he made the laconio reply: am not so crazy as to aspire to an impossible Presidency, knowing beforehand that here, at this moment, nobody can win who does not subscribe to the politics and policies such as are held by the Minister of Public Safety and his immediate group. adding that is a poterandel Castro que sada nas official backing in the form of governmental alder, and his pxing ipal adherent and supporter la the innister of Publio Safety.
This condition was referred to at the conclusion or wy despatoh No. 471 or Tine 18, 1931, and seem to have become more and more gonórally recognized as time has passed. The publie in general tacitly admitted that this situation existea, though It was rarely discussed you openly.