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"On September 22, 1942, the Cuban Senate voted to request the Executive Power of that nation to initiate negotiations with the Latin American Governments and the Dominion of Canada so that each one of them would issue a public declaration of the approval with which their peoples have been observing the efforts of His Excellency, Mr. Franklin LD. Roosevelt, and his collaborators in the Government of the United States, in the service of the good neighborliness of the countries of the Western Hemisphere, based on mutual respect and the firm determination to achieve for all of them a more prosperous and satisfactory existence in the present and the future. “The Government of Peru considers that this is a propitious occasion on Pan-American Day, coinciding with the visit of His Excellency, HANRY A. WALLACE, Vice-President of the United States, on which to reiterates publicly its adhesion to the motion of the Cuban Parliament in homage to the illustrious figure of the North American Executive, who has known how to convert into actuality the noble aspirations of America and with unfaltering steadfastness, to direct his country along the path of victory. “This homage to the Chief Magistrate of the United States also offers the Peruvian Government the opportunity to reiterate its irrevocable decision to maintain the Americanist ideals which have inspired the Good Neighbor policy, conceived and executed by President Roosevelt, and of also making public its deep sympathy with Cuba, so, closely united with this country by a friendship born in the first moment when the noble west Indian people proclaimed their independence, and in which epic struggle there participated with heroic perseverance illustrious sons of Perue™ There is set out below a report by oe[_Jroflocting certain repercussions of the visit to Peru of Vice-President WALLACE: Opinions have crystalized concerning Vice-President WALLACH's visit to Peru, which can briefly be summarized as “unfortunate". A Peruvian friend who arranged part of the official entertainment said to the writer, in effect: "I don't think any more than WALLACE does that we have an ideal government but that does not excuse his bad manners. To slip away in the esrly morning and visit the working people, while, at the same time being rude to high officials, was not tactful of Mr. WALLACE. Like it or not, this country is run by the present administration and by the type of people who support it. If the United States wants us to be friends, why send a high official who openly disapproves of us?" b7D