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Proudly, Britain's De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd. last week announced delivery of the last of nine Comet I jet airliners to British Overseas Airways Corp. By early 1953, BOAC hopes to have the fleet flying on a London-Tokyo route as well as to South Africa, Colombo and Singapore. De Havilland hopes to have all the bugs of jet operation eliminated-and perhaps be flying its Comet III-before the U.S. gets a commercial jet transport into...
...often twiddle the short wave about," explained Alan Blackman, 36, a fishworker of Hull, England. Listening in at 7:10 one night last week, Blackman heard: "Urgent! Will BBC contact Sir Hugh Cairns at Oxford 58136, ask him to telephone Dr. Pierres, Colombo (Ceylon) 9351? It concerns life or death of our Prime Minister...
When the BBC reached Sir Hugh-Oxford's famed Nuffield Professor of Surgery*-he tried at once to phone Colombo. Then began a series of frustrations. The Britain-Ceylon telephone is normally in operation only between 8 and 11 a.m. Before engineers could open up the circuit, two precious hours had been lost...
Winston Churchill was at dinner when he heard the news. He ordered the R.A.F. to speed Sir Hugh to Colombo: "Spare nothing-get a plane in the air at once!" Churchill and the British had cause to be grateful to Prime Minister Senanayake. Though in 1915 he had been jailed for 40 days by the British, he had become by 1948 their staunch friend and a worthy foe of the Communists. He had led Ceylon's 7,000,000 people to independence without bloodshed, and he became the new dominion's first Prime Minister. Working to end corruption...
Died. Don Stephen Senanayake, 67; first Prime Minister of Ceylon; of brain injuries, in a fall from his horse; in Colombo, Ceylon (see FOREIGN NEWS...