HARRY TRUMAN LIBRARY Papers of NATHANIEL DAVIS. our only lunch had been canapés and highballs at the Mexican Embassy, this collation was most welcome. We then made a tour of the city to see the fire. damage from the fight with the Cuartel and visited the Cuartel where we were shown what was being done to clean it up and were allowed to visit with the imprisoned officers. We talked with them and all assured us that they were well treated and had no complaints. spoke with Colonels Tinoco and Arieta and promised to inform their families. We then visited for an hour with a group of officers in another house. Then we went to dinner with Figueres and his staff; soup, roast beef with vegetables and salad, apple sauce, coffee.
After dinner, Figueres made a speech telling us that in view of all the circumstances he was unwilling to agree to the formula worked out by Nunez and Mora. In effect, it amounted to delivering the government into communist hands and joining forces with the commies and Calderons.
As to Vanguarida, he had no quarrel with its sociological aspects; he was opposed to it politically because it had joined forces with the corrupt Calderon machine; he was opposed to it internationally because his policy was based on firm friendship with the United States and the other American countries for geographical, ideological, and sentimental reasons and for family ties he wanted no part of any leanings toward Russia or any other European country. As to Republicano Nacional, he would not join in any government with it because of its corruption culminating in its suborning Max Koberg to destroy the work of the electoral commission. He was sending Nunez back with his final word; namely, he would accept Santos Leon as President with an all Figueres cabinet, or Santos Leon with an all. Calderon cabinet of transition. In other words, the second alternative was that the party in power should be required to disarm its troops and deliver the arms to the cuartels and handle all details of a transition. He would only insist that the public security post go to Brenes and Finance to Trejos both Calderonistas in whom he had reasonable confidence. This second alternative makes little sense to me. In either event he would insist on a declaration that the government demanded the withdrawal of all Nicaraguans from the country. If neither alternative is accepted, he will set up a provisional government in Cartago and continue the revolution. There were other details of how the troops were to be disarmed, how and