Word: ceylonization
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...guess. There have been some flagrant examples, however, of traffic in strategic materials. Several ships, after delivering U.S. cargoes of Mutual Security Agency material to Formosa, on later voyages transported oil to China. The most damaging series of shipments is the traffic in natural rubber now going on between Ceylon and China. In return for rice, Ceylon has agreed to send the Chinese 50,000 tons of rubber annually for five years...
Vivat Regina. From the west door of the Abbey, Westminster's beadle led the ranking clergy of Great Britain to the foot of the altar steps. The orders of knighthood followed-Bath, Thistle and Garter-then the standards of the Commonwealth, led by Ceylon's (a lion grasping a sword), and concluded by the Royal Arms of England, borne by Montgomery of Alamein. Polity, law and religion-the triple stays of monarchy-were impressively represented in the persons of eight Prime Ministers (of Ceylon, Pakistan, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Britain), two Archbishops (York...
...Switzerland. There, he got a job as chaplain of an Anglican church in Lausanne. When police caught up with him, he fled again, was finally caught in the mountain resort of Riffelberg masquerading as a Mr. Humphreys. Expelled from Switzerland as an undesirable alien, he was eventually found in Ceylon, boarding with a bishop and teaching at the Colombo Divinity School. Next stops: Singapore, Australia, Canada and finally the U.S. In 1950, he went back to Canada, but recrossed the border and took up illegal residence. Meanwhile, armed with faked credentials, he had done a stint of teaching at Trinity...
...powerful, as the Empire that Disraeli proclaimed for Victoria, adding the jewel of India to her crown. Ireland and Burma have broken completely free. The countries formerly called dominions today prefer to be called by the less-subservient name "realm." Six of them (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Pakistan, Ceylon and South Africa) recognize Elizabeth as their own individual Queen as well as Queen of the Commonwealth, but three of these (Ceylon, Pakistan and South Africa) do not accept her as Defender of the Faith. The seventh realm, India, is a republic, and does not recognize Elizabeth as Queen...
...birthdays of Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Mahatma Gandhi, Guru Nanak (a Sikh religious leader) and the Hindu gods Rama and Krishna. Last week the Indian government added a new birthday to the list. The addition: Gautama Buddha, founder of the great religion which has successfully invaded China, Japan, Siam, Burma, Ceylon, but has fallen off in his native India...