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...last week unmarked planes ranged the Molucca and Celebes Seas, the Strait of Makassar, the Banda Sea and the Djailolo Passage. At Amboina the Italian freighter Aquila was bombed and sunk, the Greek ship Armonia strafed, the Panamanian Flying Lark left with nine dead. On the open seas an Indonesian merchant ship, recently purchased from the Soviet Union, was riddled, and its Russian captain broadcast a frantic S O S to Djakarta, reporting five dead...
Soothing four of his moderate ministers after they complained of Gunawardena's public attacks on them, Premier Banda said: "It is true that Philip Gunawardena has Communist views, but the presence of Philip in our government is a protection against our country being stampeded into Communism." But Gunawardena, bent on using the land-reform program to gain for himself the national following he has so far failed to win, openly trumpets to his pajama-clad dockers: "Within 20 years the whole world will come under Communism's banner. As surely as there is a sun and moon...
Between East & West. In such green pastures, the Soviet-bloc countries are making hay. Having bartered Ceylon's basic rubber crop to Peking in 1957, Banda's regime last week signed an economic agreement with the Soviet Union for machinery and technical aid in return for Ceylon's tea. In the last year, 600 Ceylonese have toured the Soviet Union as Moscow's guests. Under a new Soviet-Ceylonese cultural pact, 21 Russian teachers last week bustled about the island meeting their Ceylonese counterparts. Premier Banda professes no fear that his tiny country might be overwhelmed...
Since then, the Ceylonese have contracted with the Russians to prepare a plan for harnessing the Kelani River. But even here, Banda believes in conflict. He insisted on accepting a U.S. firm's bid for a TVA-like development of their largest river, the Mahaweli. And despite its assiduous courtship of the Communists, Banda's government still lets the Voice of America operate a relay station in Ceylon for its Asian broadcasts...
...country where until a few years ago citizens couldn't send telegrams, make long-distance calls, make out a bill of lading or hold a government job unless they spoke English. I just hope it doesn't get out of hand." The hand is Lawyer Banda's, fluttering excitedly out of his white robes as he says: "If we have peace in the world for the next 25 years, then I feel reasonably confident that the world will become stabilized. Communism will move to the right, capitalism will move to the left and most of the world...