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- Security Information DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON your flet MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: Courtesy Visit of Australian Prime Minister, The Right Honorable R. G. Menzies, at 5:00 P.M., December 20. Mr. Menzies is calling to pay his respects before returning to Australia. He arrived in New York on Wednesday from London, where he has been attending the Commonwealt) Prime Ministers Conference and plans to leave here early Sunday afternoon on his return trip to Australia. He is accompanied by his daughter, Miss Heather Menzies, but not by his wife. On Friday he paid a courtesy call on General Eisenhower in New York. Although we have been informed by the Australian Embassy that Mr. Menzies wishes to pay his respects and has no matter of business to discuss, it is possible that he may have some observation to make on the recently concluded Commonwealth Conference in London. (While the only immediate definite action resulting from the London conference seems to be a decision to let DECLASSIFIED by Authority NLT- 83-7 STATE DEPT. LTR. By HC NLT Date 3-11-83 C.S. CONF IDENTIAL - Security Information