HARRY TRUMAN LIBRARY Papers of NATHANIEL DAVIS.
my statement and assured me that all measures were. being taken to avoid any untoward event, said it.
would be a disgrace for Costa Rica if anything should happen to the men who were placing themselves under the government protection in the presence of the ArchLbishop, my Venezuelan colleague, and myself. Şee, Donovan memorandum for details. lenilmeure As returned to my home, was called on the phone by the Venezuelan Minister who asked if was going to participate in person, said would. He said all right, he would too.
Later he phoned to say he was awaiting further instructions from his government. If they did not arrive before 9:30 he would not join me at the Archbishop A few minutes later the Foreign Minister came to the house and said he had just come from a meeting of the cabinet which unanimously expressed the hope that would try to persuade Mr. Ulate to take refuge in the Venezuelan Legation. agreed to place the matter before him but declined any responsibility for what he might decide of his own volition. See memorandum of See memorandum of conversation for details and testing memon chos. and up: Shortly after 9, went to the Archbishop palace and repeated the substance of my conversation of a few minutes before with the Acting Foreign Minister. The Archbishop stated positively that Mr. Ulate never would accept refuge in a foreign legation. He said the offer of asylum was a trap laid by the Costa Rican government with the connivance of the Venezuelan Minister in order to make it appea publicly that Mr. Ulate had abandoned the country to seek protection of a foreign government.
He said he was ashamed as a Costa Rican to have to say that his government had stooped so low as to try to trick Mr. Ulate after having agreed to give him a safe conduct to an unspecified place which everyone knew was intended to be within the country. The conversation was interrupted at this point by the arrival of General Picado accompanied by the commander of a mobile unit and by the arrival of the British and Colombian Ministers whom the Archbishop had invited at the last moment to join aur party.
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