Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 818.00/148

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American Legation,
San José, May 14, 1917, 9 a.m.

Constitution adopted by narrow majority electoral college nearly five hundred members only half of whom elective there permanent. Ex-Presidents’ project called for wholly elective electoral college. Opposition so strong leader Fernandez (?) withdrew permanently and continuing fight in his newspaper The Impartial. Presence of Castro Quesada in Guatemala leading to rumors of revolution here.

There exists decided reaction against Tinoco Government on all sides. Outwardly everything calm.

Johnson