REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIEDS Authority Stateletter Mohr y ME, NARA DZ:2 2498 his friend, adviser and co worker in politics, Dr. Rafael Calderón Muñoz, leader of the so called Church political faction. On the other hand, Congressmen Julio Padilla, Otilio Ulate and Juan Rafael Pérez, strongly defended the right of the Communists to enter the campaign as a party.
Ricardo Jiménez, also a candidate for the Presidency, has on various occasions been quoted in the press as being in favor of permitting the Communist group to enter the political race as a party. Alejandro Alvarado Quirós has also declared himself against the action taken by the Government in refusing the group permission to select their own candidate, stating that by granting them the privilege and right requested the Government could have assured itself that Costa Rica is not a fertile field for communistic doctrines.
Following the closing of Congress, a group of Communists, accompanied by the usual rabble of the streets, are reported to have marched from the doors of Congress down the principal street of the capital, shouting such protests as Long live the Revolutionin Long live Communismi, Down with the Capitalists.
The incident has been given no publicity whatever in the local press. Last night, a meeting was held at the headquarters of the group, during the course of which speeches of protest were made by the well known advocates of Costa Rican communism, Manuel Mora Jaime Cerdas, Luis Carballo, Anselmo Soto, Guillermo Fernández, Gonzalo Montero, and others, but the meeting was conducted in an orderly manner and so far as is generally known, no acts of violence were urged or threatened.