Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, in Moscow last week for a good-will visit with top Soviet officials, found time for one item of business: an agreement to start preliminary talks for a new Canadian-Soviet trade treaty. The Moscow press, hailing the latest evidence of the spirit of Geneva at work, announced that Soviet negotiators would leave soon for Ottawa.
Pearson's agreement to talk trade came almost as an afterthought to a week devoted to rounds of parties, sightseeing tours, and long office calls on senior Soviet functionaries. Three of his Russian hosts once cornered Pearson at a Canadian...
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