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Flying on to Canada, the weary Sandys got a brusque reception. He was flown from Montreal to Ottawa in a creaking old DC-3, while a Nigerian trade mission arriving the same day was assigned a plush government Viscount. At the bargaining table, the Canadians demanded not only assurances of protection for their exports to Britain ( which constitute only 20% of their sales abroad), but also that Britain would call a Commonwealth Prime Ministers' meeting before opening talks with the Six. Sandys had no authority to agree to either (and Macmillan, who will not even let the Commons debate...
...Cambridge the session will be divided into four phases: "culture shock," problems of international affairs, Nigerian problems and American institutions, and Nigerian educational system...
...Affairs at Harvard: Dr. Dena Farnsworth and staff of the University Medical Services; Martin Kilson, of the Department of Government at Harvard; Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., of the Department of Government at the University; Theodore Sizer, instructor in Education at Harvard, and a UCI faculty member to teach the Nigerian educational system...
...take more definite shape once the pressure of the 1961 training and placement program is out of the way. Monro hopes that money will become available to defray the construction of costs of a new secondary school, to be staffed by the University, but to be directed by local Nigerian authorities...
...school could serve as a placement outlet for students who now are scattered among a bewildering array of agencies. Monro said that it might also serve as a vital contact for Nigerian students who wish to study at the University. If the plan works out, he added, the "John Harvard School" might open its doors...