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HARRY TRUMAN LIBRARY Papers of NATHANIEL P, DAVIS. to see Mora and later two other of his henchmen appeared.
He disposed of all of them rather quickly and Brenes told me that last night he had attended a meeting of Mora political bureau to discuss his program. Mora had stated there, as he had done during our meeting yesterday and as he had again today, that he would cooperate fully withdrawing his men and delivering their arms to the cuarteles.
He said most of the political bureau agreed with everything Mora said without much discussion but that Ferreto was most intransigent, holding out for keeping Vanguardia armed to make sure that the other side keeps its promises, etc. Mora told us as we were all saying goodbye that he was leaving immediately to give instructions to start the disarming of Vanguardia. He said of course we could expect some hotheads to object but he thought he could handle them. He smiled and said with apologies that these things have to be done gently and orderly and not abruptly.
Brenes also told me during the ride home that Bonilla Lara expected to raise enough money for the demobilization atau he was to get word tonight on his success. Assuming that he does succeed, each man will receive one hundred colones when he turns over his arms. This covers all the government obligations to them for pay, bonus, etc. plus free transportation. They expect to be able to run up to five trains to Puntarenas tomorrow if they have that many men ready and Figueres assured me tonight that he could start running trains through to Limon tomorrow morning.
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