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Last week Leader Bhimrao made his decision unequivocally clear. Addressing a mass meeting of untouchables at Colombo, Ceylon, he declared that the salvation of untouchables "cannot be discovered through political "platforms. After 35 years of hard political life, often having had to cross swords with high-ranking Hindu leaders, and exploring practically every religion in the world, I have come to the inevitable conclusion that our salvation is to be found only in Buddhism...
...Commonwealth nations except South Africa, met in Sydney, Australia, and produced a program. The Commonwealth nations decided to 1) set aside a fund of $22,400,000 for technical and medical aid to the countries of Southeast Asia during the next three years; 2) set up a bureau at Colombo, Ceylon, which will deploy technicians from Commonwealth countries wherever they are most needed in Southeast Asia and send youths from Southeast Asian countries to be trained in Commonwealth universities and industries; 3) invite all Southeast Asian countries to draw up six-year plans for industrial development, modernized agriculture...
Show Window. In his own area and beyond it, at such places as the recent Colombo Commonwealth Conference (TIME, Jan. 23), MacDonald follows up his practice of racial equality and tireless preaching on political and economic themes. "I don't think the Asian people care about Communism as Communism," he says. "Their very natures are opposed to it. But there are two great causes in which they believe passionately-national freedom and the uplift of Asian masses. If we Western democracies show that we strongly support these policies and will help achieve them, Asia will never go Communist...
...Trench-Thiedemann of Ceylon. Eurasian Trench-Thiedemann had been refused entry to Australia, presumably on the basis of his dusky appearance. But his full brother, Duke, was admitted two years ago, has been living happily in the Melbourne suburb of Saint Kilda with his wife and two children. At Colombo two weeks ago, John Trench-Thiedemann was one of a mixed-blood deputation which waited on Spender, to ask that Australia limit the test for Eurasians to proof of their descent, without requiring "predominantly European features." Spender promised to see what could be done...
...Colombo's city council, which elects the mayor and deputy mayor, has four major parties: United Nationalists (conservative), Communists, and two brands of Trotskyites. For deputy mayor, the Communists had to choose between a Trotskyite and an independent with Nationalist support...