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...tidy, it's an administrative nightmare," said the director. "But it works." The Colombo Plan, with a tiny staff of clerks, is a kind of clearing house for economic relations between 15 "recipient" nations of Southeast Asia and six "donor" nations-the U.S., Britain Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Since the plan was started in Ceylon nine years ago, primarily as a mutual-aid forum of ten British Commonwealth nations, it has become the accepted regional headquarters for development plans affecting a quarter of the world's population. In that time $6 billion in foreign aid has been...
...have won increased understanding of their own motives because they have learned to understand the new nation better, and the new nations themselves have gained in political maturity. The harsh spirit of Bandung was hardly detectable among the delegates who in Jogjakarta last week enthusiastically voted to continue the Colombo Plan until...
...might be a good thing to have around, wiry, fragile-looking Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, 60, would only laugh. Proud of being known as "the people's Premier" of Ceylon, "Banda" refused to worry about personal safety, almost every morning would throw open his rambling bungalow on Colombo's shady Rosemead Place to all who wanted...
...them as "one of those little outbreaks." It was a far less serious little outbreak that finally brought him down. His assassin turned out to be a 43-year-old monk who practices the traditional Ayurvedic (native) medicine-a secret method of treatment with herbs and massage. According to Colombo police, the monk bore a personal grudge against Banda, presumably because of his refusal to rid Ceylon of its modern doctors...
...Banda's like-minded colleague, Education Minister Wijayananda Dahanayake, took over the premiership, a strange quiet settled over the country. Taxis, buses and cars flew mourning flags of white; the only hint of violence lay in a rising wave of public feeling against the Buddhist clergy. In Colombo a two-mile-long queue waited five hours in the scorching sun to pass by Banda's coffin in the Rosemead Place bungalow. At first the police refused to admit them, but at last Sir Oliver intervened. "The gates of the Prime Minister's home," he said, "were always...