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Excerpted from A Cabinet Secretary’s Memoirs by BP Peiris The next incident I can remember is a matter of a two-line by-law sent by Davidson, Assistant Government Agent, Matara, which said “The part of the… D.R.C. road lying between the first and the second mile posts is hereby prohibited for lorry traffic over three tons […]
By Jayantha Somasundaram “British Prime Minister Winston Churchill considered the most dangerous moment of the Second World War, and the one which caused him the greatest alarm, was when news was received that the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon.” –The Most Dangerous Moment by Michael Tomlinson (1976) William Kimber, London. It is 80 years […]