HARRY TRUMAN LIBRARY Papers of NATHANIEL DAVIS DIARY December 27, 1948.
Andy and called on the Foreign Minister during the morning to learn his reaction to the resolution on the Council. He was not in a very happy frame of mind. He seemed to feel that Costa Rica had been rather let down and expressed the view that in trying to balance all the factors the Council had tipped the scales rather against Costa Rica.
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During the afternoon Dr. Alberto Oreamuno came in to see me. He expressed his fears that. Figueres would get the country involved in war with Nicaragua He sa: group of. Ulate friends had been meeting, and discussing the desirability of getting Ulate to try and urge the President to take every possible step to keep out of trouble. They were thinking of sending a special Ambassador to Somoza to try to convince him that. Costa Rica would not permit an attack on him and ask him on his part to expel those. Costa Ricans who might still want to make trouble with Costa Rica. When expressed some surprise that a group of private citizens was talking about a special ambassador, he interrupted hastily to say that he meant a special ambassador sent by the government. They realized fully the possible consequences of a political party in Costa Rica attempting to deal directly with Somoza and would not fall into that trap.
Shortly after got home in the evening Dr. Gonzalo. CUBERO Otoya called on me and said more or less the same thing, adding that his group of doctors expected to arrange an appointment with Ulate and. Figueres later that evening.
Shortly afterwards, Andy telephoned the substance of a telegram which had just come from the Embassy at Managua, quoting Somoza statement to the Ambassador to the effect that he had a number of Costa Rican prisoners and didn know what to do with them. Since the fate of the men missing from the Puerto. Soley action has been worrying the people a great deal, we decided that it would be a justified humanitarian act for me to tell Figueres about this message. Rather than try to telephone him and risk some misunderstanding, decided to go and see him.
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