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Serious obstacles complicated Kishi's mission. As one Singhalese put it on the eve of his arrival in Colombo: "We remain wary of Japan's superiority complex toward other Asians." As for India, it is unhappy ovep the way Japan is selling cheap copies of Madras cottons and squeezing India out of the textile market in East Africa and Ceylon. In addition, Jawaharlal Nehru could hardly be expected to welcome a challenger to his dream of being leader of Free Asia. When Kishi set down last week in New Delhi, wearing a black wool suit, the temperature...
Buddhists are preparing for the task of propagating their faith in the West. A special college is now operating in Rangoon and a center in Colombo to train missionaries. A report of the British Missionaries Societies to the British Council of Churches last week warned Christians that "Buddhism has been roused by the recent celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the death of the Buddha, by the meeting of the [Sixth World Buddhist] Council in Rangoon, and also by the deep fear in Asia of [nuclear] war . . . Buddhist leaders are calling Buddhists to support a world mission to save...
...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...
...Colombo, Ceylon, workers had rushed to install a $1,500,000 diesel generator to handle the extra current needed for the strings of lights festooning almost every building, and some 50 flat-bed trucks were converted into illuminated floats depicting scenes from Buddha's life-a blazing caravan that will tour the entire island. In Kandy, famed as the site of a temple containing Buddha's tooth, a parade of elephants will carry the tooth, in its casket, through the town, and thousands of beggars will be fed and clothed in honor of the occasion...
...channeling aid to underdeveloped countries in the Middle East or North Africa. But even before the conference opened. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd rejected the idea of NATO aid in the Middle or Far East, pointing to the Baghdad Pact as a better instrument in the Middle East, the Colombo Plan in Asia. And the French stiffly declared that they were quite capable of supplying all the economic aid North Africa needs and wanted no help from their allies...