Authority Stateletter Inhz 5; ML No Cate 24 18 DEPARTMENT OF STATE DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS HE MERICA Costa Rica. 10, 1943.
12. Bons. for the Attitude of sé toward the New lia Popular.
Herewith an interesting despatch Pron San José explaining the attitude of Archbishop Sanabria in connection with his recent public approval of Tancuardia Ponular.
818. 00B 128 tane Tyler states that he believes that the Archbishop rave his approval for purely personal and local reasons, and not because of any impetus from the Vatican as hinted in the Department instruction. The two principal reasons advanced are (1) that the Archbishop is and has been liberal in his views as indicated by his Pastoral Letter on the assumption of office in 1940, and likewise in the letter to Vicente Saenz in Mexico City, in which he reiterates the view that social changes should be accomplished through evolution rather than throuh revolution; and (2) that President Calderon Guardia has undoubtedly appealed to the Archbishop to support Mora, an appeal which undoubtedly influenced mora to rive his sanction to Catholic workers who wish to join the new party.
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strictly confidential 3, have the honor he opinion that the Sanabria, gave his workers who wished anguardia Popular, here is no evidence te that such a step pments outside of PS TL TRA: nd the Archbishop s!
lie in his own iiberal here is enclosed a the section devoted 1, in his Pastoral Letter occasion of his conseTomlins on:HJF The Archbishop June 14, 1943 to Manuel Mora (see enclosure to my despatch no. 127) June 17, 1943) and through an emissary inquired of the Embassy if he could not send it to this office. He wished the Embassy to have it in order that his stand with reference to the new party, Vanguardia Popular, which is almost entirely composed of members of the former Communist Party, would be more clearly understood in the light of his past and present liberal trend of thought. This wish on his.
part is indicative of the fact that he is aware of the significance of his approval of a former Communist group under a new name, and afraid that the step which he has taken might be subject to grave and harmful misinterpretation.
FILLED In his Pastoral Letter of April 28, 1940, Monsignor Sanabria stated the social question was of such a nature and urgency that if it was not solved in an orderly manner, in justice and charity, its solution would be through disorder, injustice and violence. He added that while conti con dia! Hile economic