Road Fatality
(Specially written for "The Press" by
KENNETH ANTHONY)
'THIS gaily coloured stamp, issued in 1961 by the Maldive Islands, shows a detailed map of the island of Male, the capital of the group. For a small island only a mile long, Male is exceptionally well endowed with roads. The stamp is, in fact, a reminder of a violent incident when the islands’ roads led a native president to an untimely end. From time immemorial the
Maldives, a remote group in the Indian Ocean some 400 miles south-west of Ceylon, have been ruled by a sultan —except, that is, for a brief interval as a republic in 1953. At the beginning of that year, the Prime Minister, Amin Didi, assumed power as president Immediately he embarked on a series of reforms, but he attempted too much too soon. To provide labour for
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 5
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