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PRIME MINISTER'S OVERSEAS VISIT
I TINERARY
The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies, will
leave Sydney by Qantas on ' Tuesday evening February 21, for the
U~ nited States on his way to attend a meeting of Prime lMinititers
of Commonwealth countries in London early in March. He will be
accompanied by Dame Pattie Menzies and will be away from
Australia for about five weeks.
Mr. Menzies will arrive in Wash-ington, on
February 22 and at the invitation of Prosident Kennedy will have
discussions with him at the White House on matters of mutual
interest on February 24+.
The Prime Minister will fly from New York on February
26 to Geneva, where he will be for about a week. For part of
the time he will preside in his capacity as Minister for External
Affairs over a meeting of heads of Australian diplomatic
missions in Western Europe and adjacent regions. Apart from
that the Prime Minister and Dame Pattie will be on a private
visit of a few days to their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs, Peter Henderson, and their grandchildren.
From Geneva the Prime Minister will proceed to London
on Monday, March 6, for the opening of the Prime Ministers'
Conference on March 8. Mr. Menzies will leave London on March
for Bangkok where ho will represent Australia at the Meeting
of the South East Asia Treaty Organisation which will take
place from March 27 to 30 inclusive. He will return to
Australia immediately after that meeting.
Other members of the Prime Minister's party will be
the Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department, Mr. E. J.
Bunting, the Prime Minister's Private Secretary, Miss Hazel
Craig, and Mr. R. C. Maley whio will act as Press Secretary.
The Secretary of the Departmont of External Affairs,
Sir Arthur Tango, who will leave Australia a few days in
advance of the Prime Minister, will join the delegation for the
meetings which are to take place.
CAN BERRA
17th February, 1961.