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...represented when the Colombo Plan (named for the Ceylon capital where the plan was hatched) began, but the U.S. began to mesh its aid programs to the plan, by last week had spread almost $1 billion of help beneath the Colombo Plan's broad canopy...
...Singapore last week, the Asians, including many who regarded direct U.S. aid as somehow "immoral" but found it acceptable when distributed through the Colombo machinery, sought out the U.S. delegate, Foreign Aid Chief John B. Hoilister, to learn what fresh U.S. contributions might be expected...
Representatives of 17 nations gathered in Singapore's blue-columned Victoria Hall last week to take stock of the Colombo Plan's first five years and to chart a course for the next...
Started as a mutual self-help scheme among British Commonwealth nations, the Colombo Plan has since expanded to nearly all free Asian nations, produced in five years an interchange of $2 billion worth of economic development. Donor nations, e.g., Britain, Canada, Australia, have poured in capital and know-how, while recipient nations have exchanged such experts and such know-how as they have, e.g., India has sent four aeronautical engineers to Indonesia; Singapore is teaching timber grading to a Nepalese trainee; two Japanese rice physiologists are scattering seed in Ceylon...
...chided him politely for Canada's adherence to NATO. Replied Pearson: "We might agree to leave NATO if you would agree to leave a lot of other things we'd like you to leave." The next day Pearson flew on toward Singapore, where he and other Colombo Plan representatives will try to work out ways to bulwark Southern Asia against the spread of Communism...