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Tne other envelope contained a letter signed by HAYA DE LA TORRE and addressed to Mr. WALLACE. It extended a welcome to him on behalf of the Party and urged him to report to President Roosevelt that the only country in South America without constitutional liberties is Peru. A translation of this letter is as follows: “PERUVIAN APRISTA PARTY “Jefatura “Honorable Sefior Henry A. wallace Lima, April 14, 1943. Vice-President of the United States. “Senor: “me Peruvian Aprista Party, obliged to develop its activities clandestinely by the dictatorial government of Mr. Prado, has taken the resolution to send to you a message of greeting on the occasion of your passing through our country. “You visit a republic in which constitutional rights do not exist, nor any of the liberties for which the Christian people struggle in this war. You have been a witness, the afternoon of April 12th, to the popular repudiation of the government so clearly manifested in the Plaza de Armas, and, by the character of the program, you will have seen how far you have been kept from the popular masses. "Among the six IndoAmerican countries which compose the program of your trip, Peru is the only one where Democracy does not exist, where the constitutional rights are abolished, and where there are hundreds of political prisoners, without trial, in the camps of concentration. This is the Peru of the Incas which did not know misery “neither paupers nor rich people" before the conquest and for whose social and political recovery we, the Apristas, are struggling against the prevailing plutocracy. , "We hope that the Peruvian reality has not been hidden from your penetrating and observing judgment, and we trust that on returning to the United States that you will tell President Roosevelt that here there is a people vhich suffers oppression and scarcity and which aspires, with a just claim, to be free. "Wishing you a pleasant stay in our country and a heppy trip, we express sentiments of our special personal consideration. "For the National Committee, /s/ HAYA DE LA TORRE." -Ba-