REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Aphority Stateletter Ihr eyme, NARA Date 24985 TRAtron DEPARTMENT OF STATE DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS JERICA osta Rica, noc November 13, 1943. 25, 1943:10 70 RA. Mr. Cabốt: Mr. Bonsal: RELATIONS SAN JOSE DESPATCH NO. 723, OCTOBER 25, 1943 (818. 00 1896)
win. DEN orbidden until 1943, DEPAR A usizing Communist party; Mr. Trueblood concludes his despatch with the following sentence: The traditional political battling over the personalities of individuals is giving way here, as elsewhere, to a struggle between two radically opposed social philosophies. The Picado Mora coalition, comprising social views ranging from the center to the far left, is the protagonist of social reform.
The conservative elements of the country are aligning themselves with the Cortés faction.
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ojate 9631 0u 313 Whee 11897 Cortés adherents charge that the PicadoMora coalition is dominated by Communists.
The Picado Mora group rejects the charge and insists that its program of social reform conforms with the pronouncements of Pope Leo XIII, and the ideas of such progressive world leaders as President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and the late President Aguirre of Chile.
lespatch no. 706 of br to report that politThe Cortés group, realizing that the huntil December 13 or United States will not intervene in Costa elections. While Rican internal politics, is now talking of ed publicly his accepted that it will be difobtaining assistance from Presidents Ubico This ruling, which was of Guatemala and Martinez of El Salvador.
itch cited above, was an RA:EGM: PAL yrs and will undoubtedly al political situatiom.
navo a vur Observers, however, are generally inclined to regard the period between now and December 13 as the quiet before the storm. OS HWL Office of the Chief Clerk PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION HOV S 1943 In the meantime, the Cortés. party continues to base its campaign largely on two charges: first, that the Government forces are using high handed methods in order to assure themselves of victory in February, and second. that the pact between Picado and Mora has given communism the whip hand in the Partido Republicano Nacional, a de velopment which in their opinion will have the gravest consequences to the country in the years to come Department of State As the Department; ing aware, there is widespread fear of communism among the well to do people here; these persons do not consider that the recent transformation of the Communist Party into the Vanguardia Popular has altered in the slightest the fundamentally revolutionary objectives of Mora and his followers. For years the Communist Party here has been a sort of bugaboo, with the influential classes inclined to regard it with apprehension but with the feeling the one was small and not im a position to achieve its ends. The formal union between the reorganized Communist Party and the Administration