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At 6:00 p.m. on April 14th, the Senate of Peru officially received Mr. WALLACE at the Palacio Legislativo. The Vice-President responded with very short comment, mostly confined to his enjoying his visit. At 7:00 p.m., Mr. WALLACE addressed, in Spanish, a meeting of the Peruvien-North American Cultural Institute 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 Dr. ALFR&DO SOLF Y MURO, Minister of Foreign Affairs. President Prado attended this meeting, seated in his official Presidential box in the theater. At this time Mr. WALLACE delivered one of his two official speeches in Peru. At 8330 pem., 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. — ce re On Thursday, April 15th, at 6:30 a.m., the Vice-President boarded a Panagra plane at Limatambo airport and proceeded on his journey, next stop being Guayaquil, Ecuador. — 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 him a 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 submitted by No. The widely circulated story that Vice-President ‘/ALLACE slipped out of the Palace unobserved early in the morning to watch the food lines is confirmed. The taxi driver who brought him back, according to Informant BYRD, whose identity is known to the Bureau, wes immediately questioned by the police. All he could say was that a Gringo, unknown to him, had gotten out of another taxi, hed talked to people waiting in line for rice, and then had taken his (the chauffeur's) taxi to the Palace. AS soon 28 Mr. WALLACE left Peru, the administration ordered all retail dealers to sell all rice available and also published lists of where rice, theoretically, could be bought. In spite of this, little rice has been available. -13- b7D