HARRY TRUMAN LIBRARY Papers of NATHANIEL DAVIS DB951 raosa countries. Those remaining in Costa Rica had volunteered their services against Nicaragua, but the government had declined to accept them as a unit: It would gladly accept any individual volunteers, but they would serve under orders of the government and would not be permitted to try to carry out whatever separate designs they might have their arms remain in the possession of the governaent. He ended by a sking us to inform our governments of the true state of affairs in this country, particularly that there is no revolution here, that the country is behind the governments and, that the recent election shows that the overwhelming ma jority is opposed to the Calderons. The Nuncio replied, thanking him for his information and assuring him that each of us would inform our governments of what goes on here.
Concha, the Ecuadoran Minister, had no transportation So took him home in my car and stopped in for a drink.
He said the whole situation reduces itself to a matter of pockets and stomachs. If the present government had kept its promises in the peace settlement last April had not seized Calderonista property and had not lett supporters of the former government without means of livelihood. it would not have engendered the desperation behind Calderon attempt at a comeback NPDavis:mjp