REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES CECLASSHED Authority Statele teruhr 18 YLERS C:te 24181 MAIL Sr. Mora stated in his speech of acceptance that the Government will win the elections, but we will have gained in the national consciousness. He was further quoted as having said that above all and before all we will fight to consolidate and improve Costa Rican democracy. We are convinced that our democracy is a treasure which our ancestors won for us by their sacrifices, and we should defend it with all our powēr. The Costa Rican people can. such is our conviction organize themselves so as to lay the foundations for a new life without destroying their traditions of peace and liberty. He then denied statements made by menemies of the party that he was an agent, or would be an agent, of Russia. Russia. he added, has not the power in this land to induce us to be traitors to the interests of our country. We love Costa Rica above all. But not an abstract Costa Rica, rather a real Costa Rica, that is, a Costa Rica which is democratic, which is determined to live a better life.
Ás showing the liberal attitude of the other newspapers in San José toward the local party it is to be observed that the following manifesto to the country. signed by Carlos Luis Saenz, secretary of the party, was published in the DIARIO DE COSTA RICA, LA TRIBUNA, and LA PRENSA LIBRE on January 27. The Communist party has decided to hold on Monday the 30th of the present month, at in the evening, a popular assembly for the purpose of designating a candidate for the presidency of the Republic. Our party desires that its decision be not interpreted as a sectarian approach to the political problem confronting the Republic but as a disinterested effort to break the existing apathy and to explore the possibilities of consolidating a wide