Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, The American Republics, Volume V

033.1110 Wallace, Henry A./83: Telegram

The Ambassador in Peru (Norweb) to the Secretary of State

Lima, March 12, 1943—9 p.m.
[Received March 13—1:03 a.m.]

348. For the Acting Secretary and Duggan. The Minister for Foreign Affairs⁹ asked me to call on him this afternoon. He said that it had come to the attention of his Government that an effort would be made to arrange a meeting between Haya de la Torre¹⁰ and Mr. Wallace during the latter’s coming visit to Lima. The Minister stated that while such a meeting would be natural according to the political system in the United States it would not be understood in Peru.

I am not sure if the Minister actually had some information about the alleged plan for a meeting or was sending up a trial balloon in order to find out if I had heard anything. I told him that I knew nothing about any such plan. Obviously any such contact would not be understood by the Prado¹¹ Government.

Norweb

9. Alfredo Solf y Muro.
10. Leader of the political opposition party, Apra (Popular Revolutionary Alliance).
11. President Manuel Prado Ugarteche.