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When Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent left last month on his round-the-world tour (TIME, Feb. 15), Associate Editor Edwin Copps of TIME'S Canada section was assigned to cover part of the trip. Rather than take the entire six-week tour. Copps flew west to pick up the Prime Minister and party at the halfway point, follow him through India and Ceylon and to the Canadian troops in Korea. The result was some good firsthand reporting and a thorough workout for Copps...
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...
...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, that the plan had his complete approval. He would back Nehru's suggestion "without any hesitation or reservation whatsoever...
...stand was surprising because, for three days, St. Laurent had stoutly defended all the West's collective-security measures against Communism and the U.S.'s leadership in the world struggle. After listening politely from the visitors' gallery to a Nehru speech roundly denouncing U.S. military aid to Pakistan and other mutual-defense policies, St. Laurent told a joint session of the two houses of the Indian Parliament: "On the question of policies most apt to promote international security [there] is a difference between your attitude and ours." Canada, he said, believes in such collective-security pacts...
Just before the doors, closed on the big silver and red R.C.A.F. transport, the crowd gave three cheers and a tiger. The four propellers blew back a shower of powdery snow; the plane taxied out to position and roared down the runway. Next day St. Laurent was in London for lunch and a short talk with Prime Minister Churchill. This week he was scheduled to go on to Paris and Bonn, visit Canadian army and air force bases, then continue the six week, 30,000-mile tour that will take him to Rome, Karachi, New Delhi, Colombo, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul...