Word: ceylon
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...Union Jack that could be dramatically rung down. None of the Queen's relatives were there. The ceremony was not even held in the Maldives. It took place, quite unexpectedly, when Sultan Ibrahim Nasir appeared at the door of the British High Commissioner's home in Ceylon and said he was ready to sign. He was sorry to arrive without warning, said Nasir, but he hadn't expected to be coming to Colombo so soon. He had made the three-day boat trip only because he needed to see a dentist...
...join the Commonwealth. They have not applied for membership in the United Nations. Nor, apparently, will they seek diplomatic relations with any nation anywhere. The closest thing the Maldivians have to a foreign service, in fact, is a Male fish trader who has set himself up in business in Ceylon...
...student from Ceylon wanted to know about "what goes on in the month of torture" undergone by captured Viet Cong guerrillas. Said Conlon: "American interrogations in Viet Nam-and I have participated-do not include torture . . . But if you want examples of torture, why do you never condemn the well-documented tortures carried out by the Communists...
...disturbed enough at his U.N. walkout last January to turn him down flat, and only Peking and its satellites sent their top men. Of the five sponsors of the 1955 Bandung Conference, only Sukarno was on hand as boss of a nation. Nasser dispatched a Vice President, Burma and Ceylon were represented only by their ambassadors, and from India came not Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri but Chidambaram Subramaniam, the Food Minister...
Newly formed Malaysia is democratic in all respects but one: it discriminates against its Chinese population in jobs and government posts simply because the Malays are so far behind in wealth and education that they need time-and special privileges-to catch up. Though scarcely stable, Ceylon has twice during the last ten years voted out incumbent governments in more or less orderly transition...