REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 155710 111 picha 9117SUAR GEWISS57930 TAIL Province Deputy Alternate Heredia None Barnardo Benavides Juan Maria Solera Oreamuno Angel Chacón Chacón Oscar Fuentes Barrantes Guanacaste Matias Sobrado Garcia None Puntarenas Luis Vasco Coto Guillermo Lizano Matamoros Carlos Barahona Sanchez Carlos Francisco Umaña Cordero Limón None President Cortés has called Congress to convene in special session on March 1, 1940, for the purpose of confirming the election results and proclaiming Dr.
Calderón Guardia President elect of the Republic.
Notwithstanding that ir. Castro Beeche, Costa Rican Minister to the United States, was instructed to rerute an American newspaper article, which stated that the Government Candidate had won the election by a sweeping ma jority vote, to claim that Calderón Guardia was not the administration candi date is a crude attempt at hairsplitting and not in accord with facts. Dr. Calderón Guardia, a political power in his own right, entered the field early, and while he was never publicly proclaimed as the administration choice, the current administration was not tardy in climbing aboard his band wagon.
The only serious danger to Dr. Calderón Guardia candidacy lay in the possibility of having the administration support another candidate. It became common knowledge some months before election day that Dr. Calderón. Guardia found the administration numerous pre election demands to be exceedingly trying, and the most competent Minister of Public Health in the history of Costa Rica was precipitously