Office of the Historian

818.51/1100: Telegram

The Ambassador in Costa Rica (Des Portes)59 to the Secretary of State

San José, July 15, 1943—7 p.m.
[Received 10:59 p.m.]

537. Reference my telegram No. 536, July 15, 11 a.m.,58 and Department’s airgram No. 396, April 3. The President has just informed me that the Supreme Court decision was favorable to the fruit company by a vote of 4 to 1 and that the decision will be made public early next week.

Des Portes
  1. The Legation in Costa Rica was elevated to the status of Embassy on May 20, 1943, when Ambassador Fay Allen Des Portes, succeeding Minister Robert M. Scotten, presented his credentials to the Costa Rican Government.↩
  2. Not printed.↩