HARRY TRUMAN LIBRARY Papers of NATHANIEL DAVIS Extract from my disry March 1, 1948, quiet day which is most welcome. After being kept awake so much last night by the shooting felt a bit tired and sleepy. message came this morning from the Mexican Ambassador, who considers himself acting Dean of the Diplomatic Corys during the absence of the Nuncio in Panama, which shows that he is a little miffed at not having shared any of the publicity attending the Ulate incident. He says the Archbishop didn invite him to particinate and intimates that was acting without consulting my colleagues, Right. Some of them are so pro Calderon that their discretion is not to be trusted. Furthermore was acting very carefully at the request of the Archbishop and not. ostensibly. on my own initiative, Iinth Just another indication of the patik netty jealousies of some of the Cors who don have enough to keep them occupied.
The manager of the electric company renorted that a complete survey showed that last night power failures were all the result of gunfire. Their coincidence with the firing was pure coincidence, Still no evidence to show whether nower lines and installations were damaged by cunfire or by stry bullets, could have been either.
The Archbishop came in to give me a cony a memorandum he had sent to the Mexican Ambassador. The latter had let him know that he was miffed. The Archbishop says in effect that he was acting with the knowledge and approval of the President who gave him full liberty to invite the participation of any diplomat he thought best, Nice of him to give me the copy, but am not interested in the Mexican sensibilities. Someday will do something he thinks is grand and all will be well, And so to bed,