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dated November 18, 1955: Soviet leaders' India trip

The Soviet Premier, Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, and the Soviet Communist Party First Secretary, Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, left Moscow by air on November 17 on their way to pay a goodwill visit to India. The two Soviet leaders, who are now on the first stage of their 5,000-mile goodwill tour of India, Burma and Afghanistan, were seen off at Moscow's central airport by Mr. Anastas Mikoyan, First Deputy Premier, and about 20 diplomats, including the Indian Charge d'Affaires. Earlier, on November 16, Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khrushchev visited an exhibition of Indian folk art and handicrafts in Moscow. They signed the golden visitors' book and wrote in it the following statement: "All these objects are a token of the Indian people's great and ancient art which emerged at the dawn of human civilisation. We hope to see the development of Indian industry on the basis of which it is possible for that country to develop its acquired independence and raise the people's standard of living."

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