Word: ceylonization
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...Ceylon's treasury is so depleted that there is scarcely enough money to pay six weeks' bills. Senanayake's first official act was a gesture to government economy. No longer, he said, will Cabinet ministers use the fancy fleet of Mercedes cars or the fashionable houses built under the old regime of Madame Sirima Bandaranaike, whose Freedom Party was ousted from power last month. The cars will be sold for "the public good" and the houses rented to others. Asking for foreign credits to bolster the economy, the new Prime Minister reiterated his intention to compensate...
...Which, according to lore, was brought to Ceylon in the 4th century by a princess who had hidden it in her hair when Buddhism was driven out of India. Centuries later, a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa had the tooth ground into powder and thrown into the sea. But a Sinhalese prince later proclaimed that the tooth had reassembled itself and returned to its sanctuary...
Racial hatreds plague all Asian nations, which present a vast, graduated racial spectrum, from the blonde ethnic Russians of bleak Sinkiang through the anthracite Tamils of India and Ceylon, whose daughters were of such black velvety loveliness that in World War II lonely American servicemen were wont to sigh, "I'd walk a mile for a Tamil." Now a new G.I. generation is entranced by Saigon's graceful Cochinchinoises but is surprised to find Asian girls just as sensitive to racial nuances as the snobbiest New Orleans debutante...
...Again? Ceylon's new chief is a Cambridge graduate whose hobbies are photography and growing orchids. He has twice served as Prime Minister, and said he would follow a "truly nonaligned" foreign policy which, observers thought, would lean toward the West. At home, Senanayake will probably move slowly in denationalizing industry, but he does hope to compensate U.S. and British oil companies whose facilities were expropriated...
...settlement of the oil dispute should bring a restoration of U.S. economic aid to Ceylon, which was cut off in 1963, and help stabilize the island's shaky economy. Though widely popular, Senanayake lacks political cunning and physical toughness. These qualities, however, are found in his deputy leader of the U.N.P., J. R. Jayewardene, who has been named Minister of State and No. 2 man in the Cabinet. As for imperious Madame Bandaranaike, she is now free to follow her own prescription and become a homebody. When she was Prime Minister she once snapped to a critic...