REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority Statele ter hr By ML, NARS Date 24981. Desp. No. 323 American Embassy, San José, June 30, 1948.
CONFIDENTIAL that Dr. Calderón Guardia did not personally sign any of the documents which terminated the uprising. This may be perfectly natural since he held no official position, but, in any event, the protest with regard to the nonfulfilment of the pact would better come from former President Picado as it has in his letter to the Nuncio, or from Manuel Mora, with whom Father Nuñez entered into certain engagements.
With regard to the general question raised in the Department instruction under reference concerning any possible responsibility on the part of the diplomatio, corps, it may be noted that the group selected by the corps to endeavor to bring about a solution of the conflict, namely the Nuncio; the Mexican. Panamanian, Do Dominioen e American Ambassadors; and the Chilean Chargé Affaires a. in which the Dominican Ambassador joined for only the portion of one day, the Panamanian Ambassador played no imjortant role) repeatedly made it clear to all of the Costa Ricans present during the several stages of the negotiations ir the Mexican Embassy, that they felt that their duty in Carrying out the task entrusted to them by the diplomatio corps as a whole was limited solely to bringing the opposing parties together for discussions.
The fact that these discussions took place in the Mexican Embassy was of no particular significance. It was selected or became the meeting place for the diplomatio groups and the Costa Ricans almost entirely by obanco due to its advantageous location in the immediate vicinity of the presidential residence, the Foreign Office, and other Costa Rican government agencies. It was pointed out on numerous occasions both to the entire group of Costa Rioan officials who participated, as well as individually to a number of the more prominent persons concerned, that the diplomatic corps had been called toga ther at the request of the President by the Minister of Foreign Affairs who had placed the fate of the city of San José in its hands.
It had immediately become apparent that any attempt to save San José must necessarily include the broader subject of an effort to bring an end to the hostilities. Even this extension from the somewhat more limited purpose for whiob the meetings had originally been called by the Foreign Minister did not however, include or imply any obligation on the perto the corps looking towards the fulrilment of a pogsible pact which might be reached by direct negotiation between the parties most immediately concerned. In faat, while members of the diplomatic group were present in the Morioan Embassy during the entire course of the negotiations, they did not participate in many of the conversations whioh were carried on between Father Nuñez, representing the Figueres forces CONFIDENTIAT