CANADA: Visitor to India

Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, flying around the world on a 42-day good-will tour, arrived in New Delhi last week for a visit with his old friend, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru welcomed St. Laurent at New Delhi's Palam Airport, then scheduled a dozen public and private meetings with him during the next four days.

At a press conference, St. Laurent told newsmen that Nehru had informed him in advance of his plan for an immediate cease-fire in Indo-China (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Then St. Laurent declared, in what appeared to be a friendly, off-the-cuff gesture,...

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