Word: ceylonization
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Kanza ended by asking for the evacuation-"I do not say immediate, but as soon as possible"-of Belgian troops from Congolese territory. With gratitude and relief, the Security Council quickly approved a resolution sponsored by Tunisia and Ceylon asking Belgium to "speedily" withdraw her troops. Kanza's level-voiced moderation disconcerted even the Russians, who had been giving noisy support to Premier Patrice Lumumba's charges of "aggression," and forced them in the end meekly to make the vote unanimous...
...hour chosen by astrologers as auspicious, Ceylon's Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke last week swore in history's first female Prime Minister of an independent country. Coolly dignified in a plain white cotton sari, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike. 44, stepped to the balcony to give a pressed-palm salute to the crowd below, and then, predictably, burst into tears. That was just how she had won last week's election...
Beloved Husband. Prime Minister Sirimavo is the weeping widow of a much-loved man. Solomon West Ridgeway Bias Bandaranaike, known to all Ceylon as "Banda," who ruled Ceylon for three years as a benevolently bumbling leftist, then was shot to death last September by a Buddhist monk. When elections were called for March, the hack politicians of Banda's Sri Lanka Freedom Party paraded his widow about the country not as a candidate but as a figurehead, and backed her up with the dead man's recorded speeches. Sri Lanka nonetheless managed to get only enough seats...
...widow agreed after long hesitation to become the candidate for Prime Minister. Opposing her was the United National Party's able, Cambridge-educated Barrister Dudley Shelton Senanayake, 49, who has been serving as caretaker Prime Minister since April. Senanayake could brag that his party had soundly run Ceylon's tea-rubber-coconut economy in their days of power (1948-56). Under the United National Party's administration, Ceylon had achieved a per-capita income double neighboring India...
...Prime Minister, Senanayake angled patiently for enough votes to give him a clear anti-Communist majority. But the Bandaranaike party refused to support him, and he himself would have no truck with the Trotskyite opposition. Last week, defeated on a technical vote of no confidence, Senanayake gave up, asked Ceylon's Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke to dissolve Parliament and call new elections in July. By then, Senanayake hoped, Ceylon's voters would be less susceptible to an overwrought widow's overworked tears, return the U.N.P. with a workable majority...