1971 POLITICAL LEADERS

Major World Political Leaders 1971

Australia Prime Minister John Gorton Till 10 March
Australia Prime Minister William McMahon From 10 March

Brazil President Emilio Medici

Canada Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

China Chairman of the People’s Republic of China Song Qingling

France President Georges Pompidou

Germany Chancellor Willy Brandt

India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

Italy Prime Minister Emilio Colombo

Japan Prime Minister Eisaku Sato

Mexico President Luis Echeverría

Russia / Soviet Union
First Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev

South Africa Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster

United States President Richard Nixon

United Kingdom Prime Minister Edward Heath

Political Elections This Year

Canadian Federal Election 1972 Pierre Trudeau ( Liberal ) defeats Robert Stanfield ( Progressive Conservatives )