Word: ceylonization
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Swinging through Asia was Minister of Aviation Peter Thorneycroft. India sends one-third of its exports to Britain, Pakistan one-fifth. Ceylon's tea enters Britain duty-free, but faces a 35% tariff entering the Common Market. Thorneycroft talked for an hour with Nehru, who emerged to note sourly that Britain's entry into the Market "would certainly weaken the Commonwealth." Most Indian businessmen take a more hardheaded view. As India's Economic Times observed: "If the Commonwealth trade preferences which formed the real and tangible advantages of Commonwealth membership did not exist, the Commonwealth itself might...
Pearl Fishers' most conspicuous weakness is the one that plagued Bizet through much of his career-a limp libretto. Laid in Ceylon, it has to do with a colony of Indian pearl fishermen, two of whom are in love with a mysterious local priestess. After three talky acts, one of the suitors is stabbed by four priests, and the surviving principals make off to where "happiness awaits us yonder." Most productions follow the original Paris staging, in which the fishing village became as elaborate as a movie set, and the fishermen went about like oriental chieftains in turbans...
...finally decided he disliked the British more than Kassem. "Kassem is only a bad cold, but British imperialism is a cancer," wrote Nasser's favorite journalist. The U.A.R. forthwith sponsored a Security Council resolution urging an immediate British withdrawal from Kuwait. With support only from Russia and Ceylon, the resolution was defeated...
...Blake proposal, said Dr. Heuss, "too easily brushes aside the formidable problems involved," notably the need for approval by the decennial Lambeth Conference. But, said Van Dusen, the Lambeth Conference has specifically approved the plan on which the Blake proposal was modeled-the Scheme of Church Union in Ceylon. "Such statements can spring only from lamentable ignorance or from an intention to mislead," scolded Van Dusen. "More than that; they presuppose a view of apostolic succession which large numbers of Episcopal bishops and clergy do not hold." Thus the real issue is whether, in deference to a militant minority...
...liturgy, and the Bible-centered reformation churches, with their emphasis on preaching and the "ministry of all believers." The idea is not as impossible as it sounds: Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists and Congregationalists united to form the Church of South India in 1947. Under way in North India and Ceylon are similar unions on which Blake modeled his own proposal. But among the vested interests and sentimental en trenchments of U.S. Protestantism, such a suggestion seems almost like proposing a marriage of Hatfield to McCoy. That it could be seriously put forward by so hardheaded and experienced a pro of churchmanship...