Word: ceylon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atheist or worse. Walter Stace, an Englishman, was shocked. He had never fancied himself an out & out enemy of religion. As a young man, he had studied briefly for the ministry while at Dublin's Trinity College. In 20 years as a British colonial officer in Ceylon, he had formed a lively admiration for Buddhism and the Hindu religions...
...picture lops off the last fourth of the novel (which piled melodrama on melodrama, with Aissa shooting Willems), and some of Conrad's tropical thunder reaches the screen only as a muted rumble. But by making much of his movie on location in Borneo and Ceylon, Director Reed has captured the rank, overwhelming atmosphere with which the story is saturated: the landscape of brown golds and brilliant emeralds, the oppressiveness of the jungle, the steaming sunshine, the murmuring river, the endless chattering and chanting of the natives...
Finally Sir Hugh got through to Dr. Pierres, and in an eight-minute conversation got the news: Don Stephen Senanayake, 67, Prime Minister of the four-year-old Dominion of Ceylon, had been seriously injured in a freak accident. During his morning horseback ride, his mount had bolted; after sticking to the horse for more than a mile, he had fallen off, somersaulted, landed on his head and never regained consciousness. Sir Hugh instructed Dr. Pierres how to carry on until he himself arrived in Ceylon...
...once!" Churchill and the British had cause to be grateful to Prime Minister Senanayake. Though in 1915 he had been jailed for 40 days by the British, he had become by 1948 their staunch friend and a worthy foe of the Communists. He had led Ceylon's 7,000,000 people to independence without bloodshed, and he became the new dominion's first Prime Minister. Working to end corruption and diminish poverty, he became known as "the Abraham Lincoln of the East...
Died. Don Stephen Senanayake, 67; first Prime Minister of Ceylon; of brain injuries, in a fall from his horse; in Colombo, Ceylon (see FOREIGN NEWS...