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...weeks, Canada's top foreign policymakers had let the impression get around that they were thinking of recognizing Communist China-if not now, then in. the near future. Three times during his recent world torr, Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent casually referred to the Red Chinese regime as "the government the people want." External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson, in speeches in Washington and Chicago, called for "a new look at the situation...
From Colombo, Copps cabled: "An assignment to cover the activities of a 72-year-old tourist might seem a soft touch. It is anything but soft when that tourist is Prime Minister St. Laurent, who must certainly be one of the world's most energetic septuagenarians. In India and Ceylon he has been following a 15-hours-a-day schedule of official functions, sightseeing and shopping. The amount of shopping he and his party have done is best seen on the manifest of the Royal Canadian Air Force plane. There were 70 pieces of luggage on board when...
Although this was also Copps's first visit to the Far East, he felt right at home with the Prime Minister's party. Born in Eganville, Ontario, near Ottawa, Copps has had long experience covering Canadian affairs, wrote TIME'S cover story on St. Laurent (TIME, Sept...
Canada's globe-circling Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, scheduled to return to Ottawa this week, paused in Seoul last week and held a press conference. Nodding his grey head, he said: "Some day we are going to have to be realistic . . . We are going to have to admit that the present government of China is the government the people want...
Learning by cable of the flap that his statement had created at home, St. Laurent tried to cool matters off at a Tokyo press conference. He explained that he had not meant to imply that the Chinese people had freely chosen the present Communist government. All he had in mind in discussing future diplomatic dealings with Red China was some arrangement to enable representatives of the West to deal directly with the Communist regime on matters affecting China...