Word: laurents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada's membership in the British Commonwealth is the opportunity it affords for close contact and frank talk with India and other distant Commonwealth nations. That advantage was pointed up clearly last week when another Commonwealth conference opened in London. From the outset, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson strove to explain Canada's−and North America's−diplomatic viewpoints to India's Prime Minister Nehru and other neutralist Asians...
...Canadians' talks with Nehru began the day before the conference opened, when the Indian leader lunched at Canada House. Nehru and St. Laurent, who correspond frequently, have had a high regard for each other ever since St. Laurent's tour of India in 1954. Their table talk ranged over such touchy subjects as disarmament, coexistence, Soviet trade, recognition of Red China. Nehru argued for closer cooperation with the Communists, while St. Laurent and Pearson bluntly opposed it. "Don't be fooled," the Canadians warned the Indians. "There's really no new look there...
...three days last week the President met with Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent amid such scenes of studied informality and good neighborliness. The meeting was held not in Washington but in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., a watering place set amid the Alleghenies. There was no agenda, little protocol. A U.S. participant described one session of the talks...
...such, the meeting was successful. "It has been extremely nice," said St. Laurent, heading homeward. Mexico's Ruiz Cortines amplified that conclusion: "Because it was more human, also more genuine ... a new era in relations.'' The President of the U.S. bade goodbye to his guests: "May we do this again some time? I hope it was worthwhile...
...Occupied Europe (1792-1815). Consequently, when he makes Caroline an eyewitness to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, he knows what that eyeful was. Every page of Secrets is dotted with the stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach most schoolboys a lot more than they would get from most textbooks. Unfortunately, the frequent...