HARRY TRUMAN LIBRARY Papers of NATHANIEL DAVIS When he did so, he told me the Bankers Association was then in session and was proposing a committee under the presencerof the Archbishop to work out a formula. In the meantime there would be a political truce which, of course, meant no strike for the time being.
In the early evening, the American correspondents came for a background talk. little later the British Minister called for a general discussion of the situation. He told me that several members of the British colony had been urging him to urge. me to do something about the arms in the hands of the government and said that the women of the opposition were planning a parade and mass picketing of the American Embassy to demand that the American government recall all lend lease arms given to the government of Costa Rica. explained to him how useless and possibly provocative such an action would be.
March 7, 1948. spent a quiet day at home nursing my shoulder. had no callers.
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