SIR LESLIE MUNRO

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28963, 3 August 1959, Page 13

SIR LESLIE MUNRO

Busy Programme In London (From the London Correspondent of “The Press" I LONDON, July 24. An early call on the Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, discussions with Foreign Office officials and a round of private visits, among them a number to businessmen in the City, as well as calls on many friends in London, have kept Sir Leslie Munro fully occupied during the two weeks he has been in Britain. Part of his stay here has been devoted to inquiries as United Nations special representative engaged to report on the implementing of resolutions passed by the General Assembly as a result of the revolution in Hungary in 1956.

Among those with whom he had discussed the Hungarian matter there had been no waning of sympathy or interest in Hungarian problems, said Sir Leslie Munro. It was still an important subject, he said. His first report to the General Assembly will be after it reopens in September. “I cannot yet say whether this will be the only report I shall be making,” he said His instructions are to report “from time to time." Sir Leslie Munro, who was las’ in Britain in 1955, said he was greatly impressed by the signs of prosperity in the country, in the shops, the way people dressed, in the new buildings. "People have well-being written large on them,” he said.

Sir Leslie Munro and Lady Munro have called on the United States Ambassador. Mr J. H Whitney, and dined recently’ with a former member of the United Kingdom delegation to the United Nations, Lady Elliot, a life peeress. They will return to their apartment in Washington early in August. Asked whether he was stil* able to keep in touch with the details of New Zealand affairs while keeping abreast of international events. Sir Leslie Munro said that although he was away from the Dominion and his Washington home he maintained a day-to-day interest in news from the Dominion through the New Zealand press.