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During the past three days, while East met West at Geneva, five Eastern states have been meeting together at Colombo, Ceylon, in an attempt to find common ground on which all Southeast Asia can stand. Although the prime ministers of India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, and Indonesia agreed to a resolution branding aggression and colonialism as threats to peace, India and Indonesia would not agree to a similar condemnation of Communism...
...From Colombo, Copps cabled: "An assignment to cover the activities of a 72-year-old tourist might seem a soft touch. It is anything but soft when that tourist is Prime Minister St. Laurent, who must certainly be one of the world's most energetic septuagenarians. In India and Ceylon he has been following a 15-hours-a-day schedule of official functions, sightseeing and shopping. The amount of shopping he and his party have done is best seen on the manifest of the Royal Canadian Air Force plane. There were 70 pieces of luggage on board when...
...London for lunch and a short talk with Prime Minister Churchill. This week he was scheduled to go on to Paris and Bonn, visit Canadian army and air force bases, then continue the six week, 30,000-mile tour that will take him to Rome, Karachi, New Delhi, Colombo, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul and Tokyo...
That last detail was cleared up last week by an unpretentious little press release issued by the Maldivian Trade Office in Colombo. On Dec. 31, it said. Amin Didi and some followers escaped from Doonidu and crossed over to the main island of Male. "The news spread rapidly among the populace, who demonstrated strongly against Amin Didi . . . The government had to take action to protect Amin Didi from the populace . . . Several government officials sustained slight injuries, as did also Amin Didi . . . Prompt medical attention was given . . . The shock of this incident undoubtedly affected the already poor health of Amin Didi...
...Anglican church in Lausanne. When police caught up with him, he fled again, was finally caught in the mountain resort of Riffelberg masquerading as a Mr. Humphreys. Expelled from Switzerland as an undesirable alien, he was eventually found in Ceylon, boarding with a bishop and teaching at the Colombo Divinity School. Next stops: Singapore, Australia, Canada and finally the U.S. In 1950, he went back to Canada, but recrossed the border and took up illegal residence. Meanwhile, armed with faked credentials, he had done a stint of teaching at Trinity College, University of Toronto...