REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFED Althority Statele Her Puhe by me, NARA Oz: 24181 The participants in San Ramón, howi ver, lost interest gradually in the undertaking, and the direction of the re.
view passed increasingly into the bands of the San José bund. dll or whom were Centristus, In January, 1941, accordingly, the Centro decided to take over the publication and inake of it their official mouthpiece. In February of the same year appeared nuber nine of the review, which was subtitled the organ of the Centro para el Estudio de Problemas Nacionales Iron she original cozy, with sixteen pages and a printins of two hundred and fifty, copies, Surco has grown to the point where it now encompasses thirty or forty pages, has six hundred subscribers, and sells gone two thousand copies on the stands each month. Individual copies are sold for colones 20 (approximately 04. and a yearly subscription is ottainable for colones 00 (approximately 35. Six or seven pages of advertising a e carried, and this together with the paid circulation, meets the costs of publicaticno Each edition of the digazine curies an editorial, which is she official line of the Jentro on 300e subject which has been chosen and discussed in the members beforehand.
The editorial muy tale the form of criticism of some phase of Costa Rican political or economic fa, or it may be a didactic essay on some refomuld the adoption of which the Centro is currently advocating mhe renis ini 631x to a dozen artidas are ostensibly reentions optr wricors personal opinions and viewpoints.
ut in practve the majority of them are wiitten by Centristas.
14 nd are iurecord W1h the policy of the cidas whole he few of the articles may serve to indicate along.
wout liris. Cheir attention is focussed.
ps Concepciones de Damocracia (Two Conceptions of Decocracy. by Otón ACOSTA, No. 22, april. 1942.
Rehabilitación fiscal (riscal Rehabilitation. ay Licenciado Rafael Angel ROJAS, No. 27, Kay, 1142 TU Desarrollo de las Cooperativos en diversos paises europeos (Development of Cooperatives in various European Countries. by Licenciado Emilio VALVSIDE.
No. 31, January, 1943 Un programa costarricense de Rectificaciones Econimicas (II. Costa Rican Program of Economic Rectification. by Rodrigo FACIO, NO. 39, September, 1943, Poems and literary criticism appear from time to sine, but the tone is generally along the lines indicated above.
Also, sone interviews are printed, as witness the one with Vicente LOMBARDO Toledalo, the Mexican labor leader, in No, 31, January, 1943. Infrequently translations are niade of articles by American writers on political and economic events, Buch as Valter Lippmann, Carly