Word: ceylonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kachcha Tivu, a square-shaped island nesting among the waves of the Palk Strait between India and Ceylon, is about a fifth as large as New York City's Central Park. One-half mile long and barely one-half mile wide, it serves mostly as a fishermen's stopover and a smugglers' base. Once a year pilgrims from Ceylon and India come to the island to pay homage to its patron saint, St. Anthony, in a tiny church that measures only 12 ft. by 14 ft. and can hold at most 100 worshipers. Last week Kachcha Tivu...
...with the committee, Hickenlooper said: "There are 19 men on it and they represent 21½ different opinions." The one piece of legislation that carries his name- the Hickenlooper Amendment to the 1962 foreign aid bill-cuts off aid to any country that expropriates U.S. property. The amendment forced Ceylon to reverse an expropriation of U.S.-owned oil depots and gas stations and compelled Brazil to reconsider a threatened seizure...
...Britain: 7.9%. It was a half measure intended to help Danish farmers keep their vital outlets for butter and bacon in Britain while penalizing its much larger but import-dependent industries as little as possible. New Zealand, with its whole economy already weakened by falling wool prices, devalued 19.45%. Ceylon devalued 20%, and at week's end tiny Iceland took the biggest...
...Empire. Attlee also did what his old rival Churchill had refused to do: preside over the dissolution of the British Empire. While his Cabinet argued over what to do about the independence demands of India, Burma and Ceylon, Attlee broke in with his answer: get out. His decision to depart rather than delay avoided ugly anti-British insurrections and enabled him to incorporate all of the former Asian possessions except Burma into the Commonwealth. The cold war, however, put a chill on many of Attlee's plans. He diverted welfare funds to armaments to help block the Soviet threat...
Indonesia's "serious political provocation" was extending an invitation to a Taiwan trade delegation, after having canceled trade with China last month. General Suharto's government replied by announcing that it would pull the entire Indonesian embassy staff out of Peking and send them on "vacation." Ceylon got a nasty diplomatic note because two Ceylonese M.P.s and a newspaper publisher had visited Taiwan...