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REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES LEGATION OF THE No. 629 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DECLASSIFIED Authority, Statele terluka San José, Costa Rica ay ME, WARS 02:0 24 18 october 8, 1931 CM TATARS OCT 16 1931 DEPARTMENT OF SITE OCT 15 31 FOR DISTRIBUTION. !
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OCT 19 19. CPPY IN EE TP broches, plaukle DEPARTMENT OF STATE OCT219 The Honorable The Secretary of State Washington Sir:1818. 00 1298 Supplementing my despatch No. 607 of September 24, 1931, have the honor to inform the Department that on October 7, 1931, Congress, by a vote of 18 against 14, disapproved of the petition by the Communist group to have their party inscribed as a contending political unit in the coming Presidential elections.
While it is not known how the various deputies voted on the subject, among those who vigorously opposed the Communist group in yesterday session were the Presidential candidate Carlos María Jiménez Ortiz, and his nO LA io 19 31 au