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India's faith in the positive powers of neutralism suffered another shock last week. Gathered in Ceylon's capital, Colombo, were six of nonalignment's finest: Ghana, Egypt, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia, and Ceylon itself. They had taken it upon themselves to find a solution to India's dispute with Red China over the aggression in the Himalayas. After three days of top-secret sessions, the neutrals solved the problem all right. They will recommend a demilitarized zone along the Himalayan frontier and suggest that neutralist nations be chosen to police the forbidden zone. It was just...
...week's end Madame Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Ceylon's Prime Minister, announced that she herself would soon be off to Peking and New Delhi in an effort to sell the scheme to the angry foes...
African and Asian delegates were extremely sensitive to attempts at using them for Communist propaganda purposes, Sigmund observed. The walk-out of the non-Communists from Ceylon, he remarked, was the first major public demonstration of dissatisfaction by non-Western delegates to any Festival...
...Westminster. The 51-year-old Commonwealth Parliamentary Association shuttles a constant stream of M.P.s through legislative halls around the world. Though all of its former colonies do not share Britain's respect for justice, the basis of the judiciary system is English common law everywhere except in Ceylon (where the precedent is Roman Dutch law). The most humble Nigerian native can, as a Commonwealth citizen, appeal to the mightiest judges in Britain through the Queen's personally appointed Privy Council...
...digging is not without perils. Latest to fall in a hole is Maxwell Henry Gluck, 62, chairman of the 295-branch Grayson-Robinson Stores, which last week acknowledged $10.5 million in overdue debts and asked for-a time extension under the Bankruptcy Act. Gluck, a onetime U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon-he was the one who in 1957 could not remember the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister during a Senate confirmation hearing-two years ago merged his Darling Stores into Grayson-Robinson and rapidly opened 43 discount branches. Expansion cost more than it brought in. When Manhattan...