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Item: Indo-China. Around a great satinwood table in Ceylon's government offices, the five Prime Ministers convened. Between them they represented some 540 million human beings-more than one-fourth of mankind-and they moved soberly to their agenda. Item No. i: Nehru's peace plan for Indo-China. At once came objection. In view of South Asia's own unsettled Kashmir dispute, said Pakistan's Mohammed Ali, would it not be "perhaps a little presumptuous for us to preach peace to others?" Nehru fired right back: if Pakistan wants to discuss Kashmir, India...
Nehru outlined his peace plan, and again ran into trouble. Pakistan's Ali insisted that withdrawal of the Big Powers from Indo-China would be meaningless: there was no way of insuring that Red China would stop supplying the Red Viet Minh. To Nehru's surprise. Ceylon's Kotalawala supported Ali. Indonesia's Sastroamidjojo, who rules back home with Red support, took his stand to the left of Nehru and stayed there for the rest of the conference. But then came another surprise: Burma's young (47), soft-spoken Nu, a longtime Nehru man, came...
Item: Communism. But Nehru was soon in trouble again. Ceylon's Kotalawala proposed a twin vote of censure against colonialism and "aggressive Communism." in place of Nehru's resolution. Nehru, who has always fought Communism at home, angrily retorted that Asians should not disturb external relations "with friendly powers." Once more Pakistan's Ali lashed at Nehru: "We can rid ourselves of colonialism," he said, "but any country that is overrun by Communism may be lost forever...
Home from Ceylon. The decision was a bitter one for De Havilland. Of the 33 Comet II's (worth $46 million) on order, three were already finished and being test-flown in preparation for delivery to British airlines in four months. Fourteen more were more than half finished. Production was just starting on eleven orders (worth $25 million) for Comet III, with three of the planes ticketed for Pan American World Airways, the only U.S. carrier ever to order foreign aircraft. But De Havilland had no choice. In the last two years, four of the 21 Comet...
Last week the last Comet overseas flew home from Ceylon without passengers, cruising at a relatively low 20,000 ft. De Havilland, which had first thought of sending test pilots aloft as human guinea pigs to duplicate the Italian crash conditions, has decided against it. Instead, it put mechanics to work taking apart two complete BOAC Comets, checking every part from trim tabs to turbine blades. At the R.A.F. test station at Farnborough, other experts examined the salvaged wreckage of the first Italian crash last January, including all four engines...