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Hopefully, Anthony Eden dispatched messages asking the views of India, Pakistan and Ceylon on such an arrangement...
...squally monsoon weather, India's Prime Minister Nehru flew south last week to Ceylon. The occasion: the first conference of South Asian Prime Ministers. Nehru's purpose: to get a South Asian vote of confidence for three of his pet projects. They were: i) an immediate cease-fire in Indo-China; 2) indefinite suspension of H-bomb tests; 3) a vote of censure against "colonialism." Nehru expected some opposition at Colombo from Pakistan's young (45), pro-American Prime Minister Mohammed Ali. But he counted on support from Burma's Thakin Nu, Indonesia...
During the past three days, while East met West at Geneva, five Eastern states have been meeting together at Colombo, Ceylon, in an attempt to find common ground on which all Southeast Asia can stand. Although the prime ministers of India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, and Indonesia agreed to a resolution branding aggression and colonialism as threats to peace, India and Indonesia would not agree to a similar condemnation of Communism...
Elephant Walk (Paramount), though hardly a work of art, is an astonishingly neat feat of manufacture. It was begun in Ceylon during February of last year, and the film unit was flown back to Hollywood to do some final "spotting." In mid-March, before work could be finished, Star Vivien Leigh had a serious nervous breakdown and could not complete the picture...
...enormously rich young planter (Peter Finch) takes his bride, a middle-class English girl (Elizabeth Taylor), back home to his tea plantation in Ceylon. Their house is an Oriental palace with all the Occidental conveniences, but the bride does not like the life in it. Her husband and his assistants work hard all week, and on weekends have wild parties and play polo on bicycles in the main hall. All. that is, except one (Dana Andrews), the second in command, who prefers to play sonatas...