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Henry a Wallace — Part 1
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At 6:00 pem. on April 14th, the Senate of Peru officially received
Mr. WALLACE at the Palacio Legislativo. The Vice-President responded with
very short coment, mostly confined to his enjoying his visit.
+. _ ... dt.7200 pem., Mr. WALLACE addressed, in Spanish, a meeting of
: the Peruvian-North American Cultural Instjtute at the Teatro Municipal, -
it being the purpose of the meeting to commemorate Pan-American Day. ‘There
were short speeches by Dr. CARLOS MONGE, President of the Institute, and Dre
ALFREDO SOLF Y MURO, Minister’ of Foreign Affairs. President Prado attended :
J this meeting, seated in his official Presidential box in the theater. At: ~~
this time hr. WALLACE delivered one of his two official speeches in Peru.
At 8:30 pomey the Vice-President attended a formal farewell. dinner
at the home of the U. S. Ambassador, Calle Schell 210, Miraflores. There
were present approximately forty outstanding Peruvian and American officials.
President Prado was a guest. oy
On Thursday, April ith, at 6:30 aem., “the Vice-President boarded
a Panagra plane at Limatambo airport and proceeded on his Journeys | next stop
being Guayaquil, Ecuador. i
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An unofficial interlude of Mr. WALLACE's visit to Lima was an
early morning visit, unaccompanied, to several of Lima‘s large markets
where, hatless and with rumpled hair, the Vice-President conducted a one=-_
man inquiry as to how the common people in Lima live. The Lima newspapers
and periodicals expressed this as being one of the ways throughout his West
Coast tour that Mr. WALLACE has managed to carry away with hima clear-cut —
view of a cross section of the natural life in the countries he has visited.
In connection with this unofficial interlude of Mr. WALLACE! 's
visit to Lima, the following report was pubmitted by | (He!
“The widely circulated etory that Vice-President WALLACE slipped
out of the Palace unobserved early in the morning to watch the food lines
nfirmed. The taxi driver who brought him back, according to
Me, AS soon 28 Mr. “WALLACE left ‘Peru, the administration ordered all.
retail dealers to sell all rice available and also published lists of where
. vice, theoretically, sould be dought In spite of this, little rice has.
deen prailables OU Ee
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