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...also paid his respects to Italian President Giuseppe Saragat.) Roving U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman popped up in Poland so unexpectedly that he nearly caught U.S. Ambassador John A. Gronouski out of town. Special Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy was sent to Ottawa to see Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, while Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann slipped down Mexico way. To Africa went G. Mennen Williams, dune-hopping from Rabat to Tunis-and eventually 14 countries, seeing such Africans as Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta...
...Wilson. Roving Ambassador Averell W. Harriman surfaced in Warsaw, talked about Viet Nam with top Polish officials, including Communist Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, headed for Belgrade to see President Tito, planned thence to go to India. White House Special Assistant McGeorge Bundy went secretly to see Prime Minister Lester Pearson in Canada, which is one of three nations on the Viet Nam International Control Commission set up by the 1954 Geneva Conference, thus has a representative in Hanoi...
...genuine political philosophy. "It all indicates to me that I'm pretty much a middle-of-the-roader," says Winters, "which is just what I aim to be." And on the early line, at least, his aim makes him the experts' favorite to be Mike Pearson's successor...
...name that stands out is Jean Marchand, 47, who will head Pearson's proposed Ministry of Manpower, dealing with everything from citizenship and immigration to employment. An able Quebec labor leader and attractive vote getter, he is the first French Canadian in years to hold a Cabinet post with real economic power and is obviously a man in whom Pearson sees possibilities...
...better man to watch is Robert Winters, 55, a longtime Pearson friend and new Minister of Trade and Commerce. Tall and handsome, Winters is a successful businessman-politician with credentials that make him a man of admired organizational ability. Canadians remember him as the youngest member of Louis St. Laurent's Cabinet in the late 1940s and early '50s; he then left politics to take over the presidency of the Rio Tinto Mining Co. of Canada, Ltd., and only re-entered politics this fall at Pearson's pleading...