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Harking to his astrologer, Solomon West Ridgeway Diaz Bandaranaike selected high noon as the most auspicious hour to be sworn in as Ceylon's new Prime Minister. Before setting out in his ten-year-old Plymouth for the Georgian mansion of Governor-General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke in downtown Colombo, he faced the sun, to bring success to his venture. That afternoon at exactly eight minutes past 4, another auspicious hour, his new Cabinet of 12 scrambled for their cars and joined Bandaranaike at the mansion for a mass swearing-in ceremony. The Cabinet, at the Prime Minister...
...East, meeting in India, crystallized the sentiment among many under developed nations against bi-lateral aid. Fearing that direct aid often carried with it undesirable outside pressure on internal political affairs, the meeting adjourned agreeing that aid should be channeled instead through regional funds like the Colombo Plan, and through the United Nations itself. While the vagueness of the Asian nations' fears may obscure their legitimate complaints, the fact that the fears exist should lead the U.S. to increase its own allotment to regional and international funds...
...course, already supports both the Colombo Plan and U.N. aid programs--but with microscopic financial contributions. Total U.S. allocations to the United Nations Technical Assistance Program last year amounted to only $13.8 million, and a small loan and grant program to the Colombo Plan started last year for the first time...
...should continue its own aid program and at the same time respond to Asian demands for less direct aid, this country is seemingly faced with a dilemma. The dilemma can be resolved, however, by increasing present minute contributions to the U.N. and Colombo Plan and still retaining direct aid. The three paralled programs are not fundamentally at odds, and by partially satisfying Asian demands with increased international funds, the U.S. will gain more respect than it would by stubbornly emphasizing the principle of bi-lateral...
Britain had promised to double its contribution (to nearly $20 million). Hollister had news even more pleasing to the Asian ear. Proposing that the Colombo powers set up an atomic energy research and training center, he announced that the U.S. is ready to give a nuclear research reactor and, later, a nuclear power reactor. Said one Asian delegate: "For more than a decade, Asians have looked to the atom as a symbol of terror. Now, perhaps, it may become for us a symbol of hope...