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Beloved Husband. Prime Minister Sirimavo is the weeping widow of a much-loved man. Solomon West Ridgeway Bias Bandaranaike, known to all Ceylon as "Banda," who ruled Ceylon for three years as a benevolently bumbling leftist, then was shot to death last September by a Buddhist monk. When elections were called for March, the hack politicians of Banda's Sri Lanka Freedom Party paraded his widow about the country not as a candidate but as a figurehead, and backed her up with the dead man's recorded speeches. Sri Lanka nonetheless managed to get only enough seats...
...United Nationalists had no weeping widow. Mrs. Banda turned up at rallies all over Ceylon to recall her husband's greatness in a small, flat voice-and then burst into a torrent of tears. Senanayake's party actually led by a narrow margin in total ballots. But Mrs. Banda won 75 seats to 30 for the United Nationalists. Six appointive seats will give her a majority in the 157-man House, even without her wide support among Trotskyite and Communist representatives...
...Like Banda, she talked of nationalizing the foreign (mostly British) holdings in banking, insurance companies and plantations, and investors wondered if, unlike shrewd old Banda, she might actually try to put such disastrous ideas into effect...
Cheers & Tactics. Last week an audience of 1,500 Americans in Manhattan's Town Hall chanted "NOW, NOW, NOW," as Spellbinder Kaunda yelled, "FREEDOM, Africa!", and cheered stumpy Hastings Banda (who spent 15 years in the U.S. before the war, studied at the University of Chicago and Nashville's Meharry Medical College) as he proclaimed: "We are not anti-white or anti-British; we are anti-domination...
Then they set off on a barnstorming tour sponsored by Manhattan's American Committee on Africa, a liberal pressure group that is headed by the Rev. (Methodist) George M. Houser. Next week Banda flies back to London to continue his negotiations with the British government, but Kaunda has a month-long schedule of visits to Washington, the Mid-West, and the South. High point: a meeting with some young U.S. Negro leaders of the lunch-counter campaign in the South, to compare notes on tactics...