REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Mhz Ey me NARI 02:09 24 18 AGOON MEMORANDUM Costa Rica declared war to Japan on December 8th. The country enthusiastically supported the Government in this act. Being a genuine democracy made the only thing to be done in the case.
Soon after our bill of rights was set in abeyance, the individual gua ranties were suspended. Siding with the great democracies, we lost the enjoyment of our full freedom, by a series of decrees of a Congress in the hands of the Executive Power.
At once towards the end of December, 1941, an envoy came from Costa Rica to ask for a loan. 2, 000, 000. One million was to be used for fiscal purposes; the second million had to be spent in works of immediate needs and payments by the Export and Import Bank should be made against duly audited documents. The Government of Costa Rica did not satisfy this requirement. The Eximport Bank did not pay the first FW 818. 00 1920 draft until the Government sent the corresponding documents.
With part of this loan private fortunes have thriven.
With that loan no outstanding public work has been achieved; no lands were tilled nor cultivated, no crops were raised, either to ease the life of the people or to contribute to the war effort of the United Nations. small a rmament was sent to the Costa Rican Government. Since that moment, 1943, the dictatorial tendencies have been aggravated.
PS MIN And these arms are going to be used to kill our liberties and our democracy, when they were destined to defend freedom and democracy in our continent. For liberation in Europe; for dictatorships in America.
And as the Government is now in close co operation with a Communism