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...arena for field events, a main grass arena for football, hockey and basketball, a swimming pool with a spectator capacity of 5,000. There last week, teams from eleven Asian countries competed in the first Asiad, a program of events patterned after the world Olympics. The countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Siam.* Stated purpose of the Asiad: "Maintaining world peace." Another purpose: promoting the Asians-are-different line of India's Nehru and other Asian leaders...
...Knife Slip? It is chiefly Dr. Varga's story. He is ship's doctor of the Ceylon Star, a man who finds the sea a sanctuary and goes ashore as little as possible. Varga's trouble begins when the governor of Port Aarif, a lecherous old tyrant named El Bekkaa, comes aboard and insists that he be treated for an ailment that turns out, on diagnosis, to be cancer...
...Soviet vetoes have blocked nine states: Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Korea, Nepal, Portugal. Five Soviet satellite states-Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Outer Mongolia, Rumania-have failed to win a majority but the democratic nations have used no veto to bar them from membership...
Last week Leader Bhimrao made his decision unequivocally clear. Addressing a mass meeting of untouchables at Colombo, Ceylon, he declared that the salvation of untouchables "cannot be discovered through political "platforms. After 35 years of hard political life, often having had to cross swords with high-ranking Hindu leaders, and exploring practically every religion in the world, I have come to the inevitable conclusion that our salvation is to be found only in Buddhism...
...last week gave his explanation of this surprising development. Said he: "It was a gradual but definite realization by the people that peace cannot be achieved by spilling Burmese blood. There has been a wonderful spiritual revival which began when we brought the sacred Buddhist relics here from Ceylon in February and exhibited them to the people in 20 towns all over Burma...