Word: ceylonization
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...also attacked the Indian contention that since Goa was geographically and culturally part of India, the Indian government had a right to put an end to "illegal" Portuguese occupation unilaterally. Fisher claimed that Ceylon was also inhabited by Indians, and yet no one suggested that that country could be annexed by force...
...luxurious scale are two new British ships, Union-Castle's 33,500-ton Transvaal Castle, which will run between Southampton and South Africa, and P. & O. Orient's 45,000-ton Canberra, which will ply a leisurely looping route from Vancouver to California to Australia, Singapore and Ceylon, on through the Suez Canal and Mediterranean to Britain, with many stops along the way. The Transvaal Castle is strictly one class, fixes its rates ($392 to $2,324) according to size and location of the cabins. The Canberra has first and tourist classes...
...Rotterdam, for example, is now steaming around the world on an 80-day trip that will include a tiger shikar at the jungle estates of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar in the foothills of the Himalayas, a tour of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, side trips to Galle in Ceylon and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The fare...
...proposal that held that any change in China's representation was an "important question" requiring a two-thirds vote for action. To get this proposal accepted required only a simple majority. It got far more than that, carrying by 61 to 34. Next came an amendment by Cambodia, Ceylon and Indonesia, which in effect urged the admission to the U.N. of two Chinas-the Red mainland and Nationalist Formosa. It was voted down 45-30, with 28 abstentions...
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