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"The Mercury -- Tuesday, 5 November 1946"
HIS EXCELLENCY says, "CHILE IS DETERMINED TO LEND ITS
ENTHUSIASM AND LOYAL COOPERATION TO THE ORGANIZATION
OF THE UNITED NATIONS.
THIS COOPERATION WILL NOT CHANGE CHILE FROM THE HONORABLE
TRADITION OF ITS FOREIGN RELATIONS NOR ITS PAN-AMFRICAN
COOPERATION.
Many distinguished personages attend the banquet and gala
ball held last night in the Presidential Palace by his
Excellency, the President of the Republic in honor of the
foreign missions visiting our country. -- "Foreign rela-
tions of Chile always inter-American in principle approach
new economic successes with all her brother nations of the
South American Continent. Il
SERVICE' LOORDS
A brilliant group of foreign notables attended the grand banquet
and gala ball tendered last night in the Moneda Palace by his Excellency,
President of the Republic, the Honorable Gonzalez Videla, in honor of the
foreign missions who are visiting our country to attend the inauguration of
the supreme executive.
The State Palace was especially decorated both in the State
Salons and in the Grand Banquet Hall where the dinner was served.
The table of honor was occupied by his Excellency, the Honorable
Gonzalez Videla, the Vice-Presidents of Argentina, Peru, and Brazil, the
personal envoy of President Truman, Admiral William Leahy, the Ministers
of Foreign Relations, and Chiefs of the special delegations, accompanied
by their wives, the Presidents of the Supreme Court, the Comptroller General
of the Republic, the Apostolic Nuncio, former Vice-Presidents of the Republic,
Ministers of State, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, the Heads of
Political Parties and, other high officials.
When the champagne was served, his Excellency the President of
the Republic thanked the Vice-President of Argentina, his Excellency Don
Hortensio Quijano, for his remarks on behalf of the foreign representatives,
with the following words:
"The people and the Government of Chile welcome with great pleasure
the visit of the illustrious representatives of the free countries who, with
their presence, honor the most solemn act of our national life - the assumption
of power of that citizen elected by the free and sovereign vote of the people,
to rule the destinies of the Republic.
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