Word: ceylonization
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Ever since Dwight Eisenhower named him Ambassador to Ceylon, millionaire New York Dress Manufacturer Maxwell H. Gluck has been trying to live down the howl that went up when he ingenuously admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he did not know the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister...
Last week Gluck paid a courtesy call on Ceylon's Education Minister, waspish Left-Winger Wijayananda Dahanayake. Gluck had practiced pronouncing the Education Minister's name until he had it down cold. But Minister Dahanayake's secretary had somehow forgotten to remind his boss of the appointment...
...surprised, sir, but I agree with you." But Dahanayake was not to be stopped. "I have not had assistance from a single embassy here," he declared, "and I do not propose to go to them with a begging bowl." Gluck diplomatically refrained from reminding Dahanayake that Ceylon's educational system has in fact received upward of $1,000,000 from the U.S. Government during the past 18 months...
...debate went on, Burma introduced an amendment to make things a little easier for Hungary's masters by having the Assembly "deplore" rather than "condemn" Russia, and was joined by Ceylon, Indonesia and India. The General Assembly rejected the amendment and then, by a bigger margin than last December, voted 60 to 10 to condemn Russia's "continued defiance" of General Assembly resolutions. Yugoslavia was one of the ten Communist nations to side with Russia. Burma in the end voted for the resolution, as did 19 other nations from Asia and Africa. India was among ten that abstained...
With the raising of the new flag in Kuala Lumpur, Britain welcomed the tenth member of a Commonwealth which now includes five nations dominated by people of European stock, four by Asians (Malaya, India, Pakistan, Ceylon) and one by Africans (Ghana). Of all the once vast British possessions east of Suez, only Hong Kong, North Borneo, Aden and a few scattered islands still remain...