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...widow has unquestionably shattered the harmony of her island nation by her attacks on the Catholic and Tamil minorities, but her insistence that Ceylon belongs to the Singhalese is vastly popular with the vast majority. In Parliament last week, she had more than enough votes to beat down the no-confidence motion, 75-44. Explaining her disrupting success, a Singhalese politician said: "Other countries had a revolution, but the British handed us freedom on a platter. The average man found freedom was no different from life under the British. We are having our national revolution...
...China's, is greater than all of South America, Africa and Australia put together. Indians speak more than 700 languages or dialects and belong to at least seven distinct racial types, from the tall, leathery, light-eyed Punjabi of the north to the frail, black-skinned Tamil of the south. Most of India's millions are underfed, badly housed and racked by disease. The average life expectancy of an Indian at birth is 32 years and five months. Hundreds of thousands are homeless, and live, make love, sleep and die on city sidewalks, or in and around railway...
...ballot is thrown open to hundreds of thousands of Chinese born outside Singapore, most of whom are unable to speak English. In the new Parliament, in fact, English will cease to be the official language and members may debate in English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese or the Tamil language of India...
Daylight Hooligans. While the Sinhalese Premier hesitated, the rioters took over. In the Tamil stronghold of northern Ceylon, crowds attacked government-owned buses that were marked with Sinhalese letters. In response, Sinhalese mobs erupted in the streets of Colombo, obliterating all Tamil lettering on store fronts and signboards. Premier Bandaranaike abjectly reversed himself again and came out once more for Sinhalese as the national language. Disorders swept the country; railway tracks were torn up, telephone and telegraph wires cut. Cities and towns became the scene of communal war. In Colombo 10,000 terrified Tamils were herded into protective camps...
...caused, Premier Bandaranaike appealed to Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, a tough-minded financier, who took firm command of the situation. Martial law and a rigorous curfew confined the hooliganism to daylight hours. Ships in Colombo Harbor, hastily chartered, were loaded last week with nearly 10,000 Tamil refugees who were then shipped off to the Tamil port of Jaffna, where they can live without daily fear of death. From Jaffna, aboard a Japanese freighter, came some 2,000 Sinhalese whose homes had been destroyed by Tamil mobs, to be resettled in and around Colombo...