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Marxist dialectics reached interesting heights of confusion last week in the election of a deputy mayor of Colombo (pop. 355,000), capital of the island nation of Ceylon...
This decision was a grave ideological error. Within hours, they were denounced by Ceylon's Communist central committee and suspended from the party...
...three erring Communists knew just what to do. They immediately issued a standard confession, admitting their error and endorsing their own censure. This reversal reminded the Ceylon Daily News of another Marxian "crisis" wherein Groucho, feeling the pulse of an unconscious woman, looks up at his audience and says, "Either this woman is dead or my watch has stopped...
Thus bluntly defined was the problem of what the West might do for Asia. What could Asia do for the West? Ceylon made a gracious start. Buddhist priests at Kandy, learning that Bevin has a heart ailment, invited him to view the cherished relic of Buddha's tooth, which they say has curative powers. Usually the tooth is taken from its jeweled cases and exposed only once in seven years...
What with the conference harmony and the tooth-viewing, Bevin left Ceylon looking better than when he arrived...