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Show Local Woman 1 On Peace Trek Nearly ready to depart on a 17,000-mile 17,000-mile "goodwill" mission to Latin America, Mrs. Burton Muster of Salt Lake City conferred on last-minute last-minute plans Friday In Washington, D. C. with Secretary of State Hull. She waa to go to Hyd: Park. N. Y., to meet President Roosevelt Saturday, Sat-urday, then leave by plane Saturday night to begin a 42-day aerial Journey, Jour-ney, according to the Associated Press. As United States delegate to the International Conference for Main-' tenanr of Peace at Buenoa Aires last year. Mra. Musser. a noted linguist, lin-guist, won high praise from state department officials. She waa pessimistic when she saw Mr Hull Friday, however. "It is presumptuous" she commented, com-mented, "to suppose that three or four women can go down there and make the presidencies of those republics re-publics ratify treaties and conventions conven-tions drafted lat year at the Buenoa Alrea conference, "But I, and other members of the mission sent out by the People'! Mandate or Peace, will try. "If w are successful In speeding ratification of the compacts, w will be satisfied. Undoubtedly we will serve some purpose in carrying one again a message of good will to the Latin American countries. "Our aim. too, Is to demonstrate the desire of the United States for peace." |