REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Aphority State Letter Wohz öy MENARI 2458 AIR MAIL Ithe democratic institut tons lors Costa Ricasta Rica for about Thus, the President having presumably eliminated himself as a possible candidate, and former President Ricardo Jiménez having announced sometime ago thati hen of would not accept the nomination of lany party, flit seems to be the general beliet, as Intimated previously, that the is election campaign will be between Dr. Calderon Guardia and Manuel Mora. The latter stated after his nominations, typo.
thowever, that he would gladly withdraw in favor of another Icandidate of liberal views if one having praspects of can being able to unite all the present discontented is a Jelements could be found, and this statement, combined with certain other considerations, has caused some in Fobservers to inclfnecto the belief that Mora might noti, in the end, be Dr. Calderon opponent. On the other hand, few people doubt ibut that iDr. Calderon will be the ultimate victor, unless there aboudd bedredical turnover inni ysentiment prior to the election, which probably ooula transpire only as a result of frfotion between the present administration and the National Republicani Párty dandidate, of which there is no present Indication. 15 President of At this time itsfs befngi estimated by observers that the Communist candidate will poll between ffrteen and Itwenty thousand potes, las against seventy five or tefghty thousand pör Dr. Calderon. If the former estimate should Iprove accurate it will be a striking increase over the Cuotes cast for the Communist candidate in the last general Selection, when he polled only about four thousand, helt nfs befng strongly rumored that Pablo Inciso a Mexican but newspaper