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...admission of 14 new U.N. members (five of them Soviet satellite countries) on a package deal proposed by Russia. This was a small orchid for the departed Vishinsky and a minor defeat for the U.S., which is anxious to include the other nine (Italy, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Austria, Ceylon, Nepal, Jordan and Libya), but resents Russia's exclusion of South Korea and its inclusion of satellite Outer Mongolia, which is no more a sovereign nation than South Dakota. Addition of the other satellite countries (Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and Albania) would also relatively strengthen the voting position of the Soviet...
After seven years, Henry Adams vaulted out of that chair into marriage and out of Boston to Washington. His wife's tragic suicide in 1885 (in a depressed state she took potassium cyanide) sent him barreling off to the ends of the earth: Japan, Samoa, Ceylon. "Positively everything in Japan laughs. The jinrickshaw men laugh while running at full speed five miles with a sun that visibly sizzles their drenched clothes. The women all laugh, but they are obviously wooden dolls, badly made, and can only cackle, clatter . . . and hop or slide in heelless straw sandals across floors...
...scholars together is himself neither scholar nor scientist. Frederick Leon Kunz is a University of Wisconsin graduate who once headed a Buddhist college in Ceylon, later became a free-lance lecturer, and three years ago founded the Foundation for Integrated Education. The purpose of the foundation is to go deeper than any system of "general education." It is not enough, says Kunz, to dump a few facts from one field into another; it is far more important to go after the basic concepts behind the facts. As it is, most specialists don't even know what the score...
Americans tend to overemphasize the importance of India in Asia, according to Reischauer. "She certainly wields little influence on Western Asia--the Mohammaden world--none at all on the Far East, and only some over Burma, Ceylon and Indonesia. The latter two countries signed the treaty despite her,"he pointed out. "The only danger of her attitude on the peace conference was that she might sway the Asian nations, which, it turned out, she didn...
...middle of the night to draft a reply to the Premier). But one by one, the Asians sided with the U.S. Said Crown Prince Savang of Laos (IndoChina) : "This document can bring friendship back to the heart of peoples." Ablest Asian spokesman at the conference was Ceylon's delegate, Finance Minister J. R. Jayewardene, a slim, soft-spoken man with a razor-like tongue. It was interesting, said Jayewardene, that Russia wanted to "insure the people of Japan the fundamental freedoms of expression, of press, religious worship-freedoms," he added acidly, "which the people of the Soviet Union would...