Translation of Letter from Teodoro Picado to President Franklin D. Roosevelt

DEPARTMENT OF STATE litt WILLE 10 ISE CENTRAL TRANSLATING DIVISION APR 10 8 43 AM'45 [TRANSLATION] RECEIVED TC No. 10687 (Seal of Costa Rica) San José, March 24, 1945 President of the Republic e. the ARCHIVES INATIONAL RECORDS AND for Mr. Fresident: It is a great honor for me to address you and send you hereby a cordial greeting and to repeat to you my warmest desire for your personal prosperity and that of your esteemed country. I wish furthermore to inform you of a matter which interests my Government greatly: the funds destined for the Inter-American Highway - in what has to do with the Northern Section of Costa Rica - are nearly exhausted according to the information given me and it is possible that the construction of so important and beneficial a work might be suspended therefore in the Section referred to. On the other hand I have been told that the details of a new plan are being completed for the investment of an additional twenty-five million dollars in the contin- uation of the Central American Highway, and that of that amount, fifteen millions will correspond to Costa Rica, all according to the calculations and projects made by the Public Roads Administration. The step that I am taking is to the end that the said project or plan may be handled and approved as soon as possible and as soon as may be permitted by the multiple and delicate problems which your Government has to resolve. It is of the greatest importance for Costa Rica to avoid the paralyzation of this construction and it is for that