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...Said Peru's Dr. Manuel Prado, first South American president to visit the U.S. while in office, in a broadcast from New York: "I am glad to send my greetings to the sister nations of the continent and express to them my profound admiration for the immense effort which the great North American Republic is realizing in behalf of the ideals of democracy. The future shall gratefully remember these heroic moments of the life of humanity when at the cost of much sorrow and sacrifice the great values of civilization and of culture will be cemented...
...simple friendliness of the Roosevelt greeting made sense to President Prado. Peru's executive is no stuffed shirt. His father was twice President of Peru; a brother, the late Leoncio, is a national hero. Manuel Prado was a scientist, an industrial manager, a banker. But his rise had been a hard grind. His first political experience, as superintendent of a polling station in the elections of 1912, was a beating by a hostile mob. While an undergraduate at Peru's University of San Marcos, he enlisted in the Army as a private, saw front-line service during...
Smooth, tough-minded President Prado had supported the anti-Axis front. Even as President Prado flew north, Peru and the U.S. were completing a reciprocal trade agreement. The bonds between the nations were those of common sense and common interest...
President Prado presented his White House hosts with a hand-hammered silver plate, an assortment of ancient Inca pottery and water jugs; for four days went to formal luncheons, dinners and receptions. Then he addressed Congress-the first Latin American President to do so-and headed for Detroit...
...next ten days President Prado, visiting U.S. war-production centers, would plainly see how the once-feared Colossus of the North was pouring its fabulous wealth of men and money and guns against an enemy that threatened Peru...