HARRY TRUMAN LIBRARY Papers of NATHANIEL DAVIS. which he was willing to appear, the Corps should invite.
him.
As soon as the Corps was assembled, debate was started by the Mexican Ambassador on the propriety of inviting the Archbishop to meet with the Corps without first securing the approval of the President of the Republic. There was also considerable debate on the degree of secrecy that should be observed with specific reference to informing out governments. The debate was rather inane, lacking the object and objectivity and it seemed clear that our Mexican colleague and two or three of his cronies were just trying to make trouble.
In the midst of this debate, the Brazilian Minister appeared with the Archbishop, the former having misunderstood his instructions and gone to fetch the latter without waiting for the debate to be concluded. The presence of Monseigneur Sanabria did not deter the more ardent of our colleagues from debating in his presence the propriety or desirability of having him with us.
After a somewhat painful scene, the Archbishop withdrew. We subsequently learned that while all these antics were in progress, the Archbishop statement, a copy of which had been furnished each of the major parties, was read over the radio. From the meeting, went to the house where Mr.
Ulate was hiding. did not see him nor did want to. did see his host and repeated to him substantially what had told Mr. Stone. said it was becoming increasingly embarrassing for me to be consulted in these matters since was being drawn closer and closer to the point where would have to refuse to say anything for fear that my interest might be misinterpreted as intervention.
11 He replied that he understood my position. He only asked one thing of me; namely, that inform the Archbishop that Ulate friends were still preventing him from calling a strike in the hope that negotiations for a compromise be resumed: if not those initiated by the Archbishop last night, then similar ones by someone else. He said that the strike call had been put on a wire recorder as Mr. Ulate did not dare go in person to the radio station and it would be necessary only to press a button to start the shooting. agreed