ONE WEEK TO THE SCR SPECIAL MEETING
By Donald Veall
1957The NewsletterDonald Veall Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
THe Executive of the Society for Cultural Relations are expected to be very much on the defensive at the Society’s special general meeting—the first in its history—on June 29.
The meeting was forced by the members on a reluctant EC. The depth of the crisis in the Society is compelling some EC members to change their views.
The main discussion is expected to take place on a motion asking that the Society should carry out a policy based on independence of all other organizations. no commitment to a
June 22, 1957 the beginning of this year when they did an about turn and supported the government policy of ‘Sinhalese only”.
This coincided. strangely enough, with the visit of Premier