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It’s Hot in Ceylon

The day after Ceylon’s emphatic repudiation of Sir John Kotelawala’s pro-Western government, the New York Times predicted the election news would be received “glumly” in Washington. That was to put it mildly; the Ceylon upheaval impaled the Administration on the horns of a major policy dilemma from which it cannot conceivably extricate itself unbloodied. The State Department, the ICA, and others concerned with the U. S. foreign aid program, are discovering that the wages of unsuccessful bribery can be much more dire than a mere loss of the money.

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L. Brent Bozell Jr.

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It’s Hot in Ceylon

The day after Ceylon’s emphatic repudiation of Sir John Kotelawala’s pro-Western government, the New York Times predicted the election news would be received “glumly” in Washington. That was to put it mildly; the Ceylon upheaval impaled the Administration on the horns of a major policy dilemma from which it cannot conceivably extricate itself unbloodied. The State Department, the ICA, and others concerned with the U. S. foreign aid program, are discovering that the wages of unsuccessful bribery can be much more dire than a mere loss of the money.