REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 19871920299 Tekst gios UAAVO EMBAS CELISS1920 XPERATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA San José, Costa Rica, August 18, 1943.
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No. 495 A01 SER DA POLITICA ASE st Mr. Subject: Recent Political Developments: SEPI 1943 President difficulties in replédannes Cabinet members partially solved; 2. Rebuff to President through approval by Congress of decree calling elections next February has been followed by talk of a third candidate; د.
فر RECEIVED را Mora role in present campaign still somewhat ambiguous, but a party convention has been called, which may define it. statement to the press corrects earlier impression that Vanguardia party might resort to violence.
Distribution STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL 818. 00 The Honorable The Secretary of State, Washington, Si Sir:1 10. 00 1992 have the honor to report that a lull has followed the recent flare up of activity in the present political campaign which culminated, as reported in telegram no.
579) of August 12 (3 in congressional voting of the decree calling elections next February. Despite the fact that the President and his advisers were ring leaders in the plan (described in last paragraph of Embassy despatch no, 385 of August 10, 1943) designed to eliminate both Cortés and Picado, the President issued a public statement following the Congress action indignantly denying that he had had any part in it and expressing satisfaction over the solution reached. As a result of the President irritation against Picado (who engineered the vote in Congress calling elections. the former is now reported to be lending support to a plan to place a third candidate in the field.
218. 00 1797 The situation affecting the membership of the Cabinet, about which there has been so much speculation in recent weeks, has become somewhat clarified (and the President position somewhat strengthened as a result) during, the last few days. The vacant post of Finance, which it was first thought that Juan Rafael Arias would accept, has now been offered to Francisco de Paula Gutierrez, who held this portfolio during the Administration of President Cortés.
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