Word: ceylonization
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...White Ensign of Britain's Royal Navy, which had flown for 162 triumphant years over the vast Trincomalee naval station on Ceylon's east coast, came fluttering down its flagstaff for the last time. In its place, proud Ceylonese raised the Golden Lion of Ceylon's own navy. In the harbor, Her Majesty's cruiser Ceylon, the 8,781-ton flagship of Britain's once-mighty East Indies squadron, paused momentarily to exchange naval courtesies with the inward-bound Vijaya, a hastily reconditioned 13-year-old British minesweeper, which is the only "capital" ship...
Westerners are not so sure. After 18 months in office as independent Ceylon's fourth Prime Minister, Bandaranaike still commands a huge popularity, but he seems to be tugged steadily leftward. A stream of "diplomats" from behind the Iron Curtain have been pouring into Ceylon to offer trade, aid and advice. Little by little Western capital and know-how is being withdrawn, frightened away by increasing talk of nationalization. Unemployment increases steadily (the Trincomalee turnover itself threw 10,000 dock workers out of work...
...This fear of Communism," says the Prime Minister, "is terribly overdone." Retorts Agriculture Minister Gunawardena: "Ceylon will be all left within the next five years...
...Colombo, Soviet Ambassador to Ceylon Vladimir Yakovlev, possibly noting how fashionably his U.S. opposite number, Ambassador Maxwell Gluck, is getting about town, ordered the same brand of jalopy−an air-conditioned Buick...
...heir), cantankerous former judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who left the bench to serve as a lieutenant colonel in World War II, returned to find his seat filled, sued claiming the G.I. Bill guaranteed him his job (he lost); of a heart attack; in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon. Harvardman ('11) Clark first gained fame in 1930 by ruling that the 18th (prohibition) Amendment was invalid, a decision unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court...