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...from Ceylon. Nehru's greatest irritant came from a restive member of his own Colombo powers, Ceylon's Sir John Kotelawala. While Nehru debated how to approach Chou over the Formosa question, Sir John plunged ahead on his own. Meeting Chou early in the week, he demanded cheerily: "Why don't we try to settle this Formosa problem?" Three times Kotelawala set up a luncheon meeting for Chou to discuss Formosa with the five Colombo powers and Romulo and Prince Wan. Chou begged off, once was whisked off to a dinner given by Nehru to which...
...this impression may be, that the U.S. is interfering in a Chinese civil war, by supporting and encouraging a hostile pretender one hundred miles of the Chinese coast. The leaders of Asian neutral opinion--Mr. Nehru of India, Prime Minister U Nu of Burma, and Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylon--feel the same way, regarding the present U.S. policy as inconsistent and dangerous...
Early last week, as the Aruba passed under the tip of India, the Finnish crew grumbled a strike threat if the ship continued to sail on into "dangerous waters." They demanded that she put in at Ceylon. Gunnar Damstroem, manager of the Re-Be Shipping Co.. which owns the vessel, replied with a Columbus-like "Sail on!" At least, he instructed the Aruba's captain by radio to keep the ship on the open ocean and out of harm's way as long as the crew would permit. Leaving Ceylon behind without putting in to port...
...economic aid for Southeast Asia. The aim: to raise living standards by fostering economic development. Thailand and the Philippines would like to get preferential economic treatment for having signed the treaty. The British, who are already, through the Colombo Plan, giving economic aid to Asian nations (India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon) irrespective of their political color, prefer to continue that way. The U.S., too, prefers to distribute its own aid unilaterally...
Scruples & Swaps. Gingerly, the other ministers explored Nehru's views on Formosa. It was soon apparent that Nehru, with milder backing from Ceylon's Sir John Kotelawala, simply thought that the U.S. should abandon the Nationalists. The others, with some individual variants, favored Eden's plan, which would swap the offshore islands and U.N. recognition of Red China for a cease-fire and Communist acceptance of a neutralized Formosa...