HARRY TRUMAN LIBRARY Papers of NATHANIEL DAVIS. that in Paragraph no mentioned had been made of a general amnesty. He also made the points that this document was drawn up as a preliminary agreement before theydisarming of the forces and the formation of the government and he felt it should definitely state that the guarantees in Clause would be maintained in the final arrangements. We, therefore, adjourned again while the drafting committee went to work and produced the final text which was signed by the President and Padre Nunez at 3:20 Copies were passed out to all present, champagne was served, and we broke up after a series of mutual admiration speeches all around the circle.
As a cominentary on Costa Rican manners and mores, may say that the whole negotiation had almost collapsed at the last minute when the Mexican Ambassador wife called him out of the room to say that all the servants had given notice, having been instigated by two opposition fugitives to whom he had given asylum who had been working on the servants telling them that these meetings were causing them too much work. meeting of the Diplomatic Corps was called for p.
to draft a communique to be issued to the press for tomorrow morning edition. It had been, a general understanding that the preliminary meeting referred to above would be published at the same time but the Costa Ricans present agreed among themselves not to issue it until mid morning, the reason being that they doubted their ability to get word of the cease fire order to all units before early morning and they did not want any confusion or tumult to arise from publication in the press before official notification to the various commanders.
The Nuncio and started out on our tenth and hope final trip through no man land to escort Padre Nunez back to Cartago and to take Mr. Brenes along in order that he might consult with Figueres leaders on details of arrangements for withdrawing and disarming the troops, turni uarteles, etc. We had only vague hopes of getting back to town before the meeting of the Corps should end and those hopes were not realized.
Sou Cartago we found that Figueres has moved his headquarters to the Cartago Club and there is considerable improvement in the appearance of the place. Electricity is again on in all parts of the city. It was very noticeable both at the first outpost and throughout the city that his