REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Avthority State better lahz 88 NARA Date 24981 RAWO The Centro realizes that because of its limitations size and strength Costa Rica Cannot aspire to world leadership in political affairs. It must seul affairs. It must of necessity fol.
haluted State. in reacting to world low the lead of the United State. to this position the entro is fully reconciled.
rovided always provided. and a bout this and about hey feel deeply. that the United States does not return to driod of not return to a miod of isolation folas it iid after the last.
lowing this war as it jid alter the last The war effort.
sucheit in iis techiel aspects, is supportalthough little touched in its techce ed fully. An officer of the Centro lwn relating to the post war organization of area that problems sently being studied, but o date no ronour. orld are pre. has been made on the subjects V13 vis the frequently discussel uroposition political unification of Central America, the Centro Dance the stand, which is typical of Costa Rican opinion genei that the idea is excellent in theory but at the present unrealizable in practice. They feel that the scheme only be accomplished by fusion of peoples, and bei oro would be possible. the vecious yo vennents of Central Ahok would have to relinqui sb their characteristics of dictavo shido: Since it is felt tiat this is an unlikely occurrence in the near future, the matter is given little attention One of the dominant attitudes of thé antro las been its consistent and bitter opposition to Coromiinism. Since inception, and unlike many young iritellectual groups of a present era, the Centro has been inequivo line its denuncias: tion of any form of Communism, whethốt Iodinational or locale considerable part of the Centro program of public been devoted to the denunciation of the act: Guer. Manuel uitudes of the Communist Party in Costa Rica, and its east diminished MORA. This hostility has not treatiesuardia Popular and in in by the Party to charios of nanie to Vanguardia Popular and erfect, the Partylig present participation in the election campaign on the side or the Government forces has had the effect UR pe doubling the Centrals activities to discredit it.
An example of the Affalg work in this direction is a pamphlát recently published and given via de circulation; entitled El Partido Coinaistis dro Costü Rica Enju. cuado por Sus Hechos (The Costa Rican Unit Party Indicted ky Its Acts, and uppearing origina, ily in Surco, No. 39, Jlily. 1943, it contains Thirty one pages of the contractor state. ents of envel Mora, and the Communist Oral fietħou of exposiris the tortuous. Trabajo, iron 1931 to the present day. This trasly read in Costa Rica, and caused not a Party Liber was little comments relation to parties of the Right and to the The Centrosis not so explicitly dealt with.
Catholic Church ions discloses no attenpt to formulate a speA reading of 108 ablicati Rightist groups, although by implication all cial approach to voring special privileges are condemned, and organizations fa TUUT the