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killed. Property damage amounted to
$400,000,000. Fourteen thousand stu·
dents are still interned. Hopefully they
will be rehabilitated and returned to
society.
The Prime Minister emphasized,
however, that this insurrection was un–
like student riots in the United States
and France. These students were
armed, organized as an army, seeking
political power, trying to seize the
government, or destroy it and "the
establishment."
W e discussed the problems of young
people, and the "generation gap." She
spoke of the frustrations of youth, and
their intolerance and impatience.
I
agreed, telling her that the world needs
a knowledge of the
TRUE VALUES,
and
how we are teaching those values
worldwide, along with tolerance and
patience, and other fundamental truths .
She was sorry we were not going to
be able to remain long enough to get
over the country. "Colombo, the capi–
tal," she said, "is not Ceylon. And
Ceylon is not Colombo." She had
wanted to have dinner with us on
Sunday night, but we were scheduled
to be in Israel Sunday night, and had
to fly out Sunday morning.
The Prime Minister thanked us for
coming, and asked us to come again,
and plan for enough time to get
around the country, and "see Ceylon."
Our Israelí friends had planned a
banquet in Jerusalem for Sunday night.
Actually our plans had been to fly
from New Delhi to Israel on Friday,
March 24. But when the invitation
carne from the head of the government
of Ceylon to visit that country we had
decided we should not pass it up.
However, on Saturday night, March
25,
we were driven, with the High
Commissioner who had flown with us
from New Delhi, to the "Queen's
Homel' - the pa'ta-ce of Govetnor–
General Gopallawa - where we were
guests at dinner with the Governor–
General and bis wife.
I had mentioned earlier that on this
trip my elder daughter and Mrs.
Rader were accompanying us. The
ladies did not go with us for these
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meetiogs - only Mr. Rader and
Mr.
Gotoh. But, for dinoers, banquets or
afternoon teas, which seem to come
up on such trips, we need to have
them along. Of course they accom–
panied us to the Governor-General's
palace. The only other guests were the
Governor-General's chief aide, Lt.
Col.
S.
L.
Wegodapole, and his
wife.
I t
was a beautiful palace, built more than
400 years ago by the Dutch, who ruled
Ceylon before the British took it over.
This was, of course, merely a social
evening ( to extend to me this special
honor), but it was enjoyable, with a
delicious dinner, and a gracious host
and hostess.
W e had to be up early Sunday
morning. Our crew always leaves the
hotels an hour to an hour-and-a-half
before we passengers do, to give them
time to ready the plane, fi le flight
plans, and the things they have to do.
On this particular Sunday morning
we had to rise very early aod have our
luggage ready for the crew to take
with them by
5:30
a.m. We had a
long day's flight ahead.
We took the High Commissioner
from New Delhi with us, stopping at
Bombay to let him off. He planned to
remain in Bombay a couple days, then
fly to New Delhi. Then we had to
make one fuel stop at Teheran, Iran
(Persia).
I
do a great deal of my writing at
altitudes up to 41,000 feet, while fly–
ing - and also in hotels.
W
e arrived
in Israel quite a while before dark,
but had been able to have the banquet
postponed, because we were simply
too tired after the long flight to attend.
Aod due to the time differential, it was
3
y
2
hours later for us. We had been
able to communicate beforehand re–
garding our Sunday evening arrival,
instead of the preceding Friday.
Because
it
was '?assuver sea-son,
with
a great influx of Jewish visitors, even
the Minister of Tourism was unable to
get us hotel reservations closer than
Haifa. At Lod International Airport,
near Tel Aviv, we were met by Mr.
and Mrs. Charles F. Hunting, our Vice
President for Financia! Affairs in
Europe and the Middle East, stationed
at Bricket Wood, England; and also
by Mr. Richard Frankel, our office
manager at Jerusalem, and bis wife.
On Tuesday, March
28,
we three
meo -
Me.
Gotoh had returned to
Pasadena- drove to Jerusalem. We
were joined by Minister of Tourism
Moshe Kol, who accompanied us to
the Foreign Ministry office, for the
meeting with Foreign Minister Abba
Eban.
We were warmly greeted by Mr.
Eban. Although I have now become
well acquainted with many of the top
officials of both the Govecnment and
the Hebrew University in Israel, this
was my first meeting with the Foreign
Minister. Of course he knew quite a
little about Ambassador College, be–
cause of our joint participation with
Hebrew University in the great
archaeological project adjoining the
temple mount, and also our partici–
pation in the ICCY ·(International
Cultural Center for Youth) .
Minister Kol introduced us as fre–
quent visitors to Israel, aad having
had meetings with President Shazar
and Prime Minister Golda Meir, be–
sirles many other leaders.
I might mention here, as a human–
interest dlgression that the Foreign
Minister has been noted for a some–
what "starched" image - of being
quite proper in his grooming. The
average roan near the top
in
either the
university or the government in Is–
rael is quite informal in his attire. For
instance on one occasion I was with
a man quite prominent at the univer–
sity, in bis office, as we were leaving
there for a reception for me at the
official residence of President Shazar.
This particular official, halfway down
the corridor of his office building, sud–
denly exclaimed,
"Oh, wait a minute! We're going
into the presence of the President.
1
must run back and put on a jacket."
He returned wearing a sport jacket,
but still with open shirt collar and
no necktie. That little incident is typi–
cal in Jerusalem.
PLAIN
TRUTH
June
1972