REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Anthority Stateletter Inhz by me, NARA Date 2418 in general, but mention must be made of the uncertainty attached to payment of shipments from abroad. While this legislation was not specifically dictated from a nationalistic viewpoint, its effects are the same as if it had been. Other evidence of this trend toward nationalism is not lacking. The somewhat amusing reaction to the proposal made several years ago that Dr. Kemmerer be asked to survey the finances of costa Rica and make recommendations for a central Bank, et cetera, is a case in point. The press and leading citizens of the Republic hastened to declare that there was no need for the eminent money doctor st services when the country had such excellent financiers itself.
The Legation has reported from time to time the sporadic agitation which crops up regarding the employment of foreigners in the Government.
In spite of the cosmopolitan ethnological complexion of Costa Rica, public opinion is not reconciled to having Germans in the Ministry of Public works er American agronomists, as the case may be. The mere mention of the possibility (made in 1932) of a French collector taking over the administration of the Liquor Factory or of a British agent running the customs on account of default on external loans caused the populace to shudder with apprehension.
some details of this trend toward nationalism, which is, as has been suggested above, rooted deep in the psychology of the Republic, have been given briefly