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...just two days before the conference was to begin, British Ambassador Sir Roger Ma-kins called on Dulles with bad news: he had been instructed by London not to attend. Later, Sir Roger explained that the British Foreign Office, in agreeing to the conference, had overlooked the forthcoming Colombo, Ceylon conference of Asian Premiers. A precipitate British move to promote united action in Indo-China, he said, might be disastrously interpreted at Colombo as retrograde colonialism...
...Into the vacuum left by the collapse of the U.S.'s hastily laid plans stepped Britain's Anthony Eden. To the Communists' charge that Russia and China are the sole champions of Asian nationalist aspirations, Eden pointed out that since the war, India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon have all achieved independence from Britain. "Therefore I resent and reject the suggestion that we ignore or oppose the tide of national feeling in Asia, and I ask: Where is there real national freedom-in Colombo or in Ulan Bator [capital of Outer Mongolia], in Delhi or in Pyongyang...
...family feeling that characterizes the British attitude toward its monarchy that all Britons feel safer when their sovereign is home in England. During the 174 days during which she had traveled by land, sea and air more than 40,000 miles, Elizabeth's subjects in Australia, in Ceylon, in the British West Indies, even in tiny Tonga (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.), had made it plain that they considered her their Queen as well as Britain's, and that they hoped to see more of her in the future...
...expelled from Syria and Lebanon after World War II, is on the way out of Indo-China. The once prosperous Dutch East Indies has become the unprosperous Republic of Indonesia. Britain, since World War II, has given freedom and democratic government to 470 million in India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon...
Back in action for the first time this spring, Bob Rittenburg looked very strong, capturing the high and low hurdles, and taking third in the broad jump, which was won by Ceylon's and the Crimson's Mohammed Sheriff...