AMBASSADOR TO CEYLON

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28347, 5 August 1957, Page 11

AMBASSADOR TO CEYLON

An “Impossible Situation”

(Rec. 8 p.m.) COLOMBO, August 3.

The Ceylon “Morning Times’’ said today that Mr Maxwell H. Glyck would be the butt of “a lot of Unkind humour” if he took up his post as new American Ambassador to Ceylon. A columnist in the newspaper was commenting on Mr Gluck’s admission before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington that he did not know the name of Ceylon’s Prime Minister (Mr Solomon Bandaranaike), could not. pronounce Mr Nehru’s name, and was not acquainted with the United Nations report on Hungary. The kind of publicity surrounding Mr Gluck's testimony made it very unlikely that he would be able to function effectively or comfortably as Ambassador in Ceylon, the writer said. “It is inevitable, if he does fin-, ally come here, that he will be the butt of a lot of unkind humour which will not be good for him personally or for the United States of America. The situation is quite impossible,” he said. The "Ceylon Daily News” saiu in a leading article that Ceylonese were prepared to accept, after an initial shock, that an Ambassador could not know everything.

“But it is a further shock to find that the successful business that seems to be the prime recommendation of the American Am-bassador-designate to Ceylon should deal exclusively in women’s lingerie. The thing lacks dignity,” said the newspaper.

IMr Gluck is a chain store owner.]

Electricity Chief.— A pioneer of atom power, Sir Christopher Hinton, will take charge of Britain's whole electricity supply. He wiu be chairman of the new Central Electricity Generating Board. Lord Citrine will remain chairman of the present Central Electricity Authority until its dissolution at the end of this year.— London, August 2.