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...studded with steppingstones in the form of British bases. Since World War II, the demands of Asian neutralism and nationalism have gobbled up one British naval or air station after another in the Indian Ocean area until only two remain between Africa and Singapore, both in the Dominion of Ceylon, and both now doomed like the others to be sacrificed to local nationalism...
Last week Britain announced plans for a new steppingstone in the Indian Ocean: the island of Gan in the Maldives, a group of coral islands (pop. 93,000) some 400 miles southwest of Ceylon whose sultans have basked under the protection of the British navy since 1795. The rent (amount undisclosed) Britain has agreed to pay for Gan should provide a long-needed shot in the arm to the all but dormant Maldivian economy (now mainly dependent on shipments of fish to Ceylon). As for Britain's chances of hanging on to her new base-"It is difficult," said...
ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHTS will be offered early in 1957 by Trans World Airlines, second U.S. carrier to do so (first: Pan American World Airways). T.W.A. got CAB approval to extend its route eastward from Bombay and Ceylon to Manila, link up there with Northwest Airlines...
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Everyone or No One. Where the harsher Cuban resolution had won the support of only four Asian "neutrals"-Burma, Cambodia. Ceylon and Laos-every Asian member of the U.N. and more than half of its twelve Arab members lined up against the U.S.S.R. to pass the Menon resolution by a vote of 57 to 8. Rarely in its battle to win the good opinion of humanity had Russia suffered a more significant defeat...