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Crowding Troubles. Early last week, Eden drove back to London from a weekend at Chequers. Everything seemed to crowd in upon him. There was Commonwealth opposition: his first visitor was Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike on his way to New York to inform the U.N. Assembly of the Colombo powers' condemnation of both Britain and Russia. Eden spent 30 minutes putting Britain's case to Bandaranaike, only to have him emerge and tell reporters that the actions of Britain and France in Egypt were "not at all justified," seemed "a resurgence of the spirit of imperialism...
...nations, controlling 95% of Suez shipping, supported Dulles' plan, and of the four opposing (India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Russia), only Russia questioned its good faith. Even India's Krishna Menon, who had pushed an alternative plan giving control of the canal to Egypt, wound up saying "we will be only too happy" if the majority plan leads to a settlement. The one diehard of the conference turned out to be Russia's freshman Minister of Foreign Affairs Dimitry Shepilov, whose smiles, dinner parties and fine talk of "international cooperation" had raised Western hopes of a broad settlement...
Young men and women from Japan, Korea, Nationalist China, the Philippines, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, India and Ceylon-representing nearly a million Asian Baptists-lived for a week at Hong Kong's Baptist mission school, held daily morning sessions of Bible study and group discussion, spent afternoons and evenings enjoying picnics, excursions, movies, talk. Leading topic: national prejudice and discrimination. Said 28-year-old Japanese Reiji Hoshizaki: "When our delegation arrived to attend this conference, our hearts were heavy with apprehension as to how other Asian delegates would feel toward us. We aren't apprehensive any longer. The good...
...with Lancaster and probably James Stewart, Gary Cooper and Katharine Hepburn; First Love, with Audrey Hepburn, adapted by John van Druten from the Turgenyev novel; George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, with Sir Laurence Olivier, Montgomery Clift and Lancaster; and Bandoola, to be filmed in Ceylon with Sophia Loren...
...recently as 1954, however, Nasser in behalf of Egypt conceded that the canal "is a waterway economically, commercially and strategically of international importance," and expressed "the determination to uphold the convention guaranteeing the freedom of navigation of the canal signed at Constantinople on 29th of October, 1888." * Australia, Ceylon, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Great Britain, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, U.S., West Germany...