DECLASSIFIED REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Authority State Letter Mhz y me NARA Cate 24981 Desp. 132 San José March 19, 1948.
RESTRICTED guarantees of the Constitution. 2) safeguarding the democratic traditions of the country, and (3) that he should be assured that whoever should come into power would not withdraw or persecute his party. Although his entire conversation was on an unemotional and apparently straight forward basis, was left with the definite impression that Manuel Mora was completely cynical with regard to his allegations of democracy on the part of his partisans and that he would allign himsell with whatever other faction would appear to be in his self interest. in fact, he quite frankly explained his party alliance with the Partido Republicano Nacional in just such terms. The idealist, in short, is: also a practical politician.
Respectfully yours, Nathaniel Davis Enclosure: Memo of conversation.
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