REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED LEGATION OF THE Ahority. State better UNITED STATES OF AMEI) Eyme, NARA 02:0 2411 San José, Costa Rica, November 11, 1935. PIVISION OF ORA 919. 00 No. 928 Subject: POLITICAL LMT AMERICAN AFFAIRS NOY 2) 1935 Darad IMERI OF STATE 1B CONFIDENTIAL STIUT SEGRETTO NOV 29 1936 DEPARTMENT OF STATE C mov2f1935 11 13 5SSISTAS SECRETARY OF STAGE MR. WELLES AM 11 135SUISTA Wo Laura od Kalocha ite RECEIVED DEPARTMENT OF STATE DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS ANDREPUROS 1935 NOV 19 818. 00 1503 Cooy Trade Commercial Dinn (1 0)
The Honorable The Secretary of State, Washington, Guatemala manald Sir: Supplementing my Despatch No. 917 of October 31, 1935, wherein discussed conditions in Costa Rica arising out of the present political campaign for the Presidency, now have the honor to inform the Department that the Communist newspaper TRABAJO predicts in its current issue that violence may occur next February if one of the three Presidential candidates does not rece an outright majority of the votes cast.
The threat by the Communist newspaper, which is vigorously NOV 10 HO