REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Yahu 8: MY HART Cato 24981 Enclosure No. 1, Despatoh No. 132, March 19, American Embassy, San José, Costa Rica.
RESTRICTED. Page that his party would agree to any president who was not of either extreme and under whom it could find guarantees for the social gains of the people during recent years.
Manuel Mora went on to say that he himself had for many years been a friend of Ulate and that he felt that Ulate himself was closer to the Vanguardia in his social and economic views than is Calderon Guardia. The latter, he said, is Catholic, conservative and represents the bankers and coffee growers, while Ulate, on the contrary, is broader in his social and 8conomio viewpoints. Ele said, however, that to obtain the presidency Ulate had allied himself with the strongly entrenched wealthy class.
In connection with his earlier relations with Ulate, whom he said he know Woll as a fellow member of the Congress, he remarked that Ulate at the time of President Cleto, Gonzalez had defended the right of the then Communist Party to enter the campaign for President. Cleto Gonzalez had refused to allow its registration on the basis that Costa Rican parties were personalist and not parties of certain platforms. He said that this did not signify any friendship of Ulate for Communism since that was not his view, but that it did show he was willing to take a position in defense of what he thought was a democratio right and the right of Congress, not the President, to decide a matter of this. natur. Mora said that he had placed himself and his party on the side of Calderon Guardia during the latter Presidency since Calderon bad been instrumental in giving the country both the Labor Code and the Social Security legislation. He said that in aiding Calderon he was therefore aiding Vanguardia Popular, and explained that while Calderon had come into office as an opponent of the Vanguardia and with the support of the landed interests and the strongly entrenched. German colony, the advent of the war had led to his taking action against the Germans who, because of their economio importance, had been influential in the creation of the distrust or the moneyed element for Caideron. Calderon, therefore, after his first two years in ofrio. which Mora described as extremely indifferent, was without support, and since he was instrumental in the promulgation of the social laws he sought the support of Vanguardia which acoorded it to him since it felt that it was to the best interests to do so. The entire implication of Mora remarks in this respect was to the orfeot that Vanguardia world lend its support to the president who would defend its own interests, that is, the interests of the laboring class. With regard to the political orientation of Vanguardia Popular, Mora explained that it is not Communistic but follows the dootrines of Marx in the economioa field. He said that these dootrines were not adapted in their entirety but taken as a general guide to be :7 adapted RESTRICTED