Evening star., 1947-08-10
Armour Heads Group
Leaving for Farley
In Brazil Tomorrow
BY the Assoeioted Press

Assistant Secretary of State Nor
man Armour will be the top-ranking
official IN the vanguard of the
United States delegation to the Rio
conference, scheduled to leave at
II o'clock tomorrow night for the
Brazilian capital.
Secretary of State Marshall, head
of the United States delegation to
the conference, which opens Friday,
will fly to Rio de Janeiro later in
the week, probably Wednesday.
Chairman Vandenberg of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee and Warren r. Austin, United
States delegate to the United Ma
tions Security Council, will accom-
pany Gen. Marshall.
Mr.. armour will head the first
group, which includes most of the
technical advisers and secretaries
attached to the United Stats dele
CATION.
DR.. Alberto Lleras Camargo, di-
rector general of the Pan American
Union, will fly to Rio with Armour's S
group.
Party Leaves Tomorrow.
Others who will leave tomorrow
night for Brazil include:
William Dawson, United States
ambassador to the Pan American
Union Governing Board; Stanley
Woodward, chief Of protocol of the
United States State Department; j;
John Dreier, chief of the Division of
Special Inter American Affairs; Ce-
Gil Lyons, special assistant to Mr..
Armour and Michael McDermott,
chief press officer Of the State De-
partment.
This contingent will fly to Rio de
Janeiro aboard a Pan American
Always special flight fdue in the
Brazilian capital about 2 o'clock
Wednesday morning, Washington
time after refqelling stops at San
Juan. Puerto Rico; Port-of- Spain,
Trinidad and Belem, Brazil.
Gen. Marshall, Senator Vanden-
berg, Mr.. Austin and other members
Of the U. S. delegation, will fly to
Brazil in the Sacred Cow" one of
President Truman's personal planes
Connally Bloom on Way.
Senator Tom Connally, Democrat.
of Texas and Representative Sol
Bloom, Democrat, of New York, both
prominent members of the Senate
and House committees dealing with
foreign relations, left by boat last
week.
They, along with Senator Vanden-
berg and Mr.. Austin, both Repub-
licans, represent the bipartisan ma
ture of this country's foreign policy,
maintained since the United Nations
charter was written in San Fran
CISCO
Senator Vandenberg and Senator
Connally have attended frequent
international conferences as ad-
visers to former Secretary of State
Byrnes.
William D. Pawley, United States
Ambassador to Rio de Janeiro, and
a delegate to the conference, will act
as host to the United States dele
cation.
Pawley Back at Post.
Mr.. Pawley returned to his post in
Rio two weeks ago after consulta-
tions on the conference with Presi-
dent Truman and Gen Marshall.
Diplomatic authorities have spe-
culated that President Truman will
fly to Rio in time to address the
final session of the conference. He
is making trip to Brazil as guest
of President Eurico Gaspar Dutra.
Reports circulated yesterday
without confirmation-that Argen-
tine President Juan D. Peron also
may fly to the Brazilian capital to
meet Mr.. Truman. He has been
officially invited to visit Brazil.
Officials of the Argentine embassy
said they know nothing, however, of
Mr.. Peron's plans to visit Brazil.