A VODSTT ETTED PREPARING OFFICE TELEGRAM SENT WILL INDICATE WHETHER CONFIDENTIAL CODE Full rate NONCONFIDENTIAL CODE Collect Day letter RECEN PARTAIR (Night letter Department of State PLAIN Charge Department: Full rate a Washington, Day letter 1940 NOV PM 27 Night letter Charge to November 8, 1940 VISION MUNICAT (STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL ND RECOM 68, 00 AMLEGATTON.
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Il should be carefully paraphrased before SAN JOSE (COSTA RICA. being communicated to anyone. BR 193 In view of the reported continued illness of President Calderón Guardia, the Department requests that you submit promptly an air mail report discussing the various possibilities which might arise under the Constitution and Laws of Costa Rica for his temporary replacement by one of the designates, indicating which designate would be likely to assume charge, and what changes in policy, if any, might be anticipated.
In the event that the first designate should be replaced by a new Congressional appointee, does the new appointee legally become first designate and thus first in line of succession, or does he become third designate, the other two moving up to first and second designates respectively?
See Your report should be based solely on the Legationis knowledge of the situation.
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RA CP MLG Enciphered by CR 8 1940 PM Sent by operator 1462 GOVERNMENT TRINTING OFFICE