Word: ceylon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently as 1954, however, Nasser in behalf of Egypt conceded that the canal "is a waterway economically, commercially and strategically of international importance," and expressed "the determination to uphold the convention guaranteeing the freedom of navigation of the canal signed at Constantinople on 29th of October, 1888." * Australia, Ceylon, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Great Britain, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, U.S., West Germany...
...same forum, the Crown Prosecutor of Ceylon, Neville Kanakaratne, defended his country's so-called "neutralist" foreign policy by asserting that military alliances tend to aggravate tensions while participants lost independence of judgment. He defined Ceylon's foreign attitude as one of "noninvolvement in the military policy of foreign blocs...
...visit of John Foster Dulles to Ceylon's Prime Minister just before the recent election in that country might have been one reason for the Minister's defeat, Kanakaratne said. He pointed out that the government then in power was trying to divorce itself from the stigma of pro-Americanism...
Kanakaratne critized the United States for cancelling Ceylon's right to economic aid after Ceylon was forced to sell rubber to Communist China because no satisfactory prices were offered in the United States. Ceylon slaughtered its rubber trees during World War II to keep the Allies supplied, he added, and now must see itself refused aid that is readily given to Franco Spain...
...International Seminar Forum this evening will feature representatives of Korea and Ceylon speaking on "Alliance, Neutrality, and Development," and two Germans discussing "No Miracles in Germany." At 8 p.m., in Emerson...