EISENHOWER NOT TO VISIT U.K.
Tour Likely Later
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 6. President Eisenhower will not visit Britain until his wife, who recently underwent an operation, is well enough to come with him, authoritative sources saia today. The President will visit France next month for an important meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. In Washington, the acting White House spokesman, Mrs Anne Wheaton, said: “I think the President would like to go some time later on.” She said that the Paris conference would take up most of the President’s time while he was in Europe and there were “plenty of things to attend to here” that would require him to keep his absence abroad down to the (shortest possible time. | Asked whether the President (would go to Britain, she replied: “There is no decision to go. It does not look as though he will be going to London.” The Paris N.A.T.O. “summit” meeting begins on December 16 and is due to last three days.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28429, 8 November 1957, Page 9
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