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...nations except South Africa, met in Sydney, Australia, and produced a program. The Commonwealth nations decided to 1) set aside a fund of $22,400,000 for technical and medical aid to the countries of Southeast Asia during the next three years; 2) set up a bureau at Colombo, Ceylon, which will deploy technicians from Commonwealth countries wherever they are most needed in Southeast Asia and send youths from Southeast Asian countries to be trained in Commonwealth universities and industries; 3) invite all Southeast Asian countries to draw up six-year plans for industrial development, modernized agriculture, etc., for which...
...Commonwealth Conference in Ceylon last month, Jawaharlal Nehru told fellow delegates that there had been a "need for a change in China." Then, referring to India's recognition of the Chinese Communist government, he added: "There is not much purpose in recognizing somebody and holding them under...
...Take the Liberty." Because Lipton "had no use for middlemen," he sailed for Ceylon in 1890 and invested in several tea plantations to supply his 300 stores. Britons were used to buying their tea in bulk; Lipton packaged it, hired sandwichmen dressed as Indians to parade through the streets advertising it, soon had everyone persuaded that tea and "Lipton's" were synonymous. By the time he moved his offices to London in the early 1890s, Lipton's name was a British household word...
...four years and five months as Prime Minister, Clement Attlee had not only given freedom to India, Burma, Ceylon (combined pop. 411 million), he had also given to Britain a new way of life. Some of Attlee's followers called it Socialism; some called it "fair shares for all"; some called it the welfare state. Winston Churchill last week scornfully snarled out another name for it: "Queuetopia." Spendthrift's End? Whatever it was, the regime of queues and 40% taxes and womb-to-tomb security had come to judgment. On Feb. 23, Britain's voters would decide...
This week, on his way home from a get-acquainted tour of Asia, new External Affairs Minister Percy Spender was bringing a policy puzzler in the case of John James Trench-Thiedemann of Ceylon. Eurasian Trench-Thiedemann had been refused entry to Australia, presumably on the basis of his dusky appearance. But his full brother, Duke, was admitted two years ago, has been living happily in the Melbourne suburb of Saint Kilda with his wife and two children. At Colombo two weeks ago, John Trench-Thiedemann was one of a mixed-blood deputation which waited on Spender, to ask that...