Word: ceylonization
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This questionable technique has resulted in such aberrations as l'affaire Gluck, when a New York dress manufacturer, recently appointed Ambassador to Ceylon, was unable to tell a Senate committee the name of the Ceylonese premier. Last week, while telling a press conference of his desire to see more career diplomats in senior positions, the President was pushing the nomination of the 35-year-old former owner of the solidly Republican New York Herald Tribune as Ambassador to Israel...
...COLOMBO, Ceylon, Jan. 25--President Tito says his tour of the self-proclaimed neutralist Asian belt has convinced him this area will remain "uncommitted and independent...
...Rotating majestically"-what an apt description of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune [Dec. 8]. You can always read in John Cowles's paper about what's going on in Ceylon or Java, but who the hell ever knows what's going on in Minneapolis...
...Ceylon. "I cannot deny that among all the countries I have visited, Ceylon is politically perhaps the most restless, and this causes concern." Ceylon is too conscious of its past colonial subjugation, he said. "It will be much better to ask for foreign aid. It will increase your national income so that you can increase taxes. You need not fear foreign influence, or new foreign domination...
...military dictatorships bearing a similarity to Nasser's. The revolt in Pakistan may be but one example of a more general movement which has touched Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon in recent months, Thailand, Burma and Pakistan in the last weeks, and which may threaten the governments of Malaya and Ceylon...