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...close to Russia," said Ceylon's late, respected Premier Don Stephen Senanayake, "we would be embracing danger, we would be embracing the bear...
Last week Ceylon (whose Prime Minister is Don Stephen's son Dudley) was hugging Russia's partner in crime, Red China. Occasion for the dangerous embrace: a chance to do some trading in rubber and rice...
Tiny, scenic Ceylon (pop. 7,500,000), a free member of the British Commonwealth since 1948, is heavily dependent on rubber exports. When the Korean war broke out in 1950, the price of natural rubber zoomed from a sickly 18? a pound to about 90?. The U.S., by curtailing its purchases and relying largely on its own synthetic rubber, forced the price of natural back down to about 30^. That slump hurt Malaya and Indonesia, as well as Ceylon; but on top of it, Ceylon had a rice crop failure this year. It had to reduce the ration...
Trying its best to cope, the conference passed resolutions calling for: 1) a ceasefire in Korea, 2) release of all Japanese war criminals, 3) repatriation of Japanese prisoners still held by the Russians, 4) the abolition of war toys throughout the world. Said Fellowship President Dr. Gunapala Malalasekera of Ceylon: "We earnestly call upon the world's leaders . . . quickly to pay heed to the teaching of Sakyamuni,* so as to attain a world of selfless concord...
Without her family's knowledge, Crowley married Rose Kelly, sister of Painter Sir Gerald Kelly. They spent their honeymoon in Cairo, where they drove through the streets dressed in silks, diamonds and cloth of gold, and in Ceylon, where, for a while, Rose thought she was a flying bat and was found by her admiring husband hanging from a beam, naked, upside down and unhurt...