DECLASSMED Authority Statele Her Whe By Me NART Date 2498 was not increased when Picado, getting wind of the Administration scheme to postpone the Presidential elections, quickly returned to San José from one of the seall towns of the country where he had been resting and engine ered a unanimous vote by the Congress to have the elections held on the Constitutional date.
The Democratic Party has consistently laughed at the Administration for having to back candidate in whom they had little confidence. Up til the last moment. December 13. 1943. discussions on compromise candidates were still going on. Until recently most of the people who had aligned themselves with hin had done so more because they were against León Cortés and because of the ever present possibility that another candidate would be substituted in Picado place at the last moment than because of any admiration for the Presidential nominee. Also he is supported by the usual group who bet on the Administration candidate as the more likely to wa.
It has frequently been stated that Picado will use all seans in a his power if elected to diminish the influence of lanuel Mora in the new Government. This may be an impossible assignment since the troubles makers and the political shock troops are Manuel Mora nen and its must be exceedingly embarrassing for Sefer Picado, as the head of the sea National Republican Party, to speak at a rally and hear only very feeble shouts of Vina Picadol in comparison with the enthusiastic cries of Viva Mora. Should Pica do be elected it will be largely due to the assistance of Manuel Mora and Mora has at least four of his non on the National Republican Party ticket for Deputies to the Costa Rican Congress.
In addition to this Picado is known to have been very anti Communist before the present political situation forced him and Vora to join hande.
It is Mora and the President who are running this election, and Picado, in spite of the fact that he heads the ticket, is pushed into the background. If, therefore, serious trouble breaks out over the lections it will offer the President and Mora an opportunity to raise the cry of Nazi Revolta and declare martial law and afford an excuse for the Free sident to remain temporarily in power. This is a frequently discussed probability in Costa Rica and since the Government has the ans and many of the Communists are to be armed as special Police and not arorao actics, in contrast to the usual Costa Ricano character, there is the possibility that such a coup night succeeded Reasons for President and Morala fear be ste When León Cortés was President he effectively denied the sechte ofrethe Communista to vote by arresting many of the just before the elections in 1940. His hatred of Communio lo vall knorm and lon not only foara that the gains which his party has nado during the Administration of Calderón Guardia will be masculated should Cortés become president, but he undoubtedly also fears that he himsell may be adled or worso, a The President Calderón Guardia hates Cortos betats, of the dottanta.
comparison made between the toll administered Government dum ng Cortes presideney and his om. In addition President Calderon Guardia dhe hang on to the money and property he has obtained and is certain that