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...Barry Phillips Charles Comyn, Walcott and an accomplice apparently went to India last month by sea and rail from Ceylon and registered at a fashionable Bombay hotel. A detective questioning the hotel staff about foreign guests learned that the two men often made person-to-person calls to Colombo. The name they asked for, remembered the detective, belonged to Walcott's contact man there...
...crossroads of commerce. Tokyo actually led on the first ballot, but others were active too. Thailand pressed for Bangkok, which is becoming Southeast Asia's regional U.N. center. Manila boasted that its schools turn out plentiful trained personnel for banks. Bids were made by Teheran, Kuala Lumpur and Colombo. Finally, the Philippine delegation suavely stymied lobbying for rival cities with a reception for conference-goers and a lengthy dinner cruise around Manila Bay, ostensibly to celebrate their bank governor's birthday. That seemed to clinch things. On the final ballot next day, the Asian nations gave Manila nine...
Pinch Hitter. Much of the credit for the common stand against De Gaulle's pressures belonged to a diplomatic pinch hitter, soft-spoken Italian Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo, who presided over the Brussels meeting in place of ailing Amintore Fanfani, Italy's Foreign Minister. After quietly sounding out each delegate, Colombo dramatically produced a proposal while the ministers, fortified with postprandial coffee and cigars, talked late into the night in a secluded forest home outside the Belgian capital. Thanks to their agreement, said EEC Commission President Walter Hallstein, "the Community is alive." The sole French reaction in public...
Flying on to Rome in a two-prop U.S. Air Force Convair T-29, Fowler met with Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Governor of the Bank of Italy Guido Carli, and Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo. The Italians have been more sympathetic than most Europeans to the U.S. call for reform, and this time the meetings were cordial from the beginning. "We have given our fullest support" to the idea of an international conference, said Minister Colombo as he and Fowler left the meeting. For the first time, Fowler indicated that the U.S. has a time table for reform: talks...
...took place, quite unexpectedly, when Sultan Ibrahim Nasir appeared at the door of the British High Commissioner's home in Ceylon and said he was ready to sign. He was sorry to arrive without warning, said Nasir, but he hadn't expected to be coming to Colombo so soon. He had made the three-day boat trip only because he needed to see a dentist...