On March 16, from Washington's National Airport, Henry Agard Wallace set off on a tour. The Vice President of the U.S. proposed to speak his democratic mind, in Iowa-accented Spanish, to the people of Central and South America. By last week he had spoken in four countries, this week he was in a fifth, and it was already plain that the trip was paying democratic dividends.
Costa Rica's President Dr. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia assured Mr. Wallace that of all visits from foreign greats, "none has been so glorious as yours, due...
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