Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-13
ALLIED CLUB FETE
ONCOLUMbUSDAY
Brazilian Ambassador Gives
Dinner in Honor of Hugh c.
Wallace.

| PARIS. October ~ (by the Associated
| Press).-Columbus day furnished the
| occasion for pan-American demon
| stration at the Allied Club. where DIR.
| GaStoa de Cunha. Brazilian ambassador
to France, gave dinner in honor of the
| American ambassador. Hugh G. Wal
lace. and the diplomatic representatives
of the South American republics. NJ.
De Peralta. the Costa Rican minister
and dean of the diplomatic corps. and
the minister from Paraguay. DR.. Baez
were unable to be present.
In welcoming the guests DR.. de Cunha
said: The moment has come for the
| Americans, the eliminating moment
that arrives for each nation in the evo-
luton OF history. Today. after the great
| war. in which was consumed the old
social organization, and at a time when
a new order. Of things is being labori-
ously framed. the Americas appear to
the peoples tried by so many sufferings
as the land Of promise, the land of the
| future.
1--WE Americans are grateful to Euro
pean civilization from which we Sprang
and are seeking to strengthen more and
more the ties by which we desire to be
attached to Europe, when We signalize
our definite participation in the councils
pride that in the whole eXpanse of the
American continent. extending from one
pole to the other flanked by two great
oceans and fraternally opened to the
| enjoyment of all peoples of the uni
verse. our countries are in the new
world the capitalization of European
| civilization"
Salute to Wallace.
Turning to Ambassador Wallace. he
said: Il salute our great sister of the
north, creator of our political insti-
tutions-the country of federal ism.
with Hamilton; the country of the
rights of people. with Wilson; the lead
which NV action Of
moral grandeur without equal in his
tory, came forward to offer all the
resources of it's opulence to the cause
OF humanity; the honored and disin-
terested champion of the highest
ity in the war decided the victory.
and still can in peace, we hope. and
expect, assure for the benefit of the
world the existence of the league of
nations consolidated by mutual re-
spect and the friendly collaboration
of all peoples. without distinction be-
tween victor and vanquished."
Replies for L. S.
Replying for the United States, Am
bassador Wallace said:
at should not be forgotten that it
was the spirit and force of the new
world which decided the issue of the
great war in favor of justice and
right. That should admonish US that
the western hemisphere should be
knit together in friendship and faith
because in that unity may come the
opportunity to decide the fate of the
world-it saved it from despotism; it
may be called upon to save it from a
barbarous proletariate."
Among those present was Nile Pc
canha, former president of Brazil
He, together with the Argentine
minister. NJ. De Alvear; the Cuban
minister, DR.. Martinez Ortiz, and
the Peruvian minister, DR.. Mariana
Cornejo. responded to toasts
At the same time in another dining
room the Interallied Club of Naval
and Military Attaches of the United
States and Brazil gave a dinner to
the naval and military attaches of
the Central and South American re-
publics.