REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Inhz èyme, NARS Date 2418 AN Observers have also pointed out that the Communist organization represents the first political party which has yet appeared in Costa Rica that is built on a clearcut, enumerated program, and not around the personality of a leader. The success of the Communist movement considered jointly with the fact that most of the prominent leaders of the country are now old men is giving rise to the belief that in the not distant future political parties may be forced to depend on a useful program for success at the polls and not on the personal prestige and connections of their leaders, confirming this conjecture is the rumor that General Jorge Tolio, now sojourning in Europe, expects to return to Costa Rica during the course of this year to organize a party to combat Communism.
470 (See Despatch No. 104 of January 25, 1934. The average Costa Rican is inclined to scoff at the menace of Communism, as some thing that is definitely out of place in his fertile, democratic Republic, where no one is ever supposed to go hungry. prominent official told me recently that once the economic crisis is over, the movement will disappear as quickly as it cropped out. That, believe, is the general opinion, but a few political observers do not believe it will be quite as simple as that. They point ste to the heavy Communist vote polled in the city of San José, as well as in Heredia, Puntarenas and Limón, all important urban centers, as straws in the wind.
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