Word: ceylonization
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...Ceylon is swinging sharply left, and frail, fidgety Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, 58, seems unwilling or unable-or both-to stop it. This week, as Ceylon marks the tenth anniversary of its independence from Britain, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree is flying out to check for himself reports that the Indian Ocean island off the southeast coast of India is well on the way to becoming another Syria...
Theory of Conflict. Banda, a onetime Oxford undergraduate who shared the same Christ Church staircase with Sir Anthony Eden, is a devout Buddhist, is Buddhistically sure that everything is for the best in Ceylon's green world. "Conflict is very essential to life," he says. "But it must be confict that does not militate against a higher harmony above it. I have always felt that ultimate reconciliation was possible, and the people of this country have now made it possible for me to put my theories into practice...
Between East & West. In such green pastures, the Soviet-bloc countries are making hay. Having bartered Ceylon's basic rubber crop to Peking in 1957, Banda's regime last week signed an economic agreement with the Soviet Union for machinery and technical aid in return for Ceylon's tea. In the last year, 600 Ceylonese have toured the Soviet Union as Moscow's guests. Under a new Soviet-Ceylonese cultural pact, 21 Russian teachers last week bustled about the island meeting their Ceylonese counterparts. Premier Banda professes no fear that his tiny country might be overwhelmed...
...months ago Ceylon was struck by a major natural disaster. Blinding monsoon rains washed half a million people from their homes and breached 500 of the earthen irrigation tanks that the civilization of antiquity bequeathed to the cultivators of the island's food crops. U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Gluck called on Washington for emergency help. Flocks of helicopters from the aircraft carrier Princeton dropped food that saved the lives of hundreds and, incidentally, gave the U.S. a needed boost in popular esteem...
...Sukarno flew into Ceylon with the cheers of Syrian demonstrators ("Long Live the Lion of Indonesia") still ringing in his gratified ears, anti-Communist politicians and dissident army commanders of the outlying provinces met to muster their forces and concert their plans at the Central Sumatran capital of Padang. The conferences began some three weeks ago in deepest secrecy. Summoned by shrewd, stocky Colonel Maludin Simbolon, the dissident commanders flew in from the Celebes and South Sumatra. The officers are mostly young colonels, and all are anti-Communists who run their areas with cool efficiency and a minimum of corruption...