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REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AMEDICA. DECLASSIGED Authority Stateletter Inher by me NARI Date 2418 RECD consented to figure among the signatories of the 1907 Treaties; it lent its former capital, Cartago, for the site of the Central American Court of Justice; it submitted its long standing boundary dispute with Panama to the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; and, in general, consented to work harmoniously with its neighbors along international lines.
This benign policy of international rapprochement received its cachet in 1923 when authorized representatives of Costa Rica signed the General Treaty of Peace and Amity. The national ego temporarily went into an eclipse, and the force of nationalism received a rude check by the proscription of certain rights, hitherto mostly enjoyed by turbulent neighbors, it is true: of revolutions aided and abetted by other countries, and restriction of the power of recognition of governments.
The interlude furnished by the Tinoco régime in 1917 and 1918 had been a temporary flare up of the old nationalistic spirit, and while it lasted a group of men endeavored unsuccessfully to ignore such incidentals as constitutional rights and recognition.
The boundary trouble with Panamá in 1922, when blood was shed over the old dispute, threatened to take on sizeable proportions until the national ego was foro for reasons unnecessary to mention at this point, to subside. Even this moment of wounded pride was balr by the fact that the Big stickhad never actually fallen on costa Rica as it had on Nicaragua, Santo Domingo and Haiti. It had been brandished, but the ego