CEYLON CRISIS
Settlement Reached (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) COLOMBO, March 14. The Ministerial crisis has been settled. The Governor has consented not to interfere with existing arrangements governing Minister’s relations with heads of departments pending the report of a select committee of inquiry. All six State Council Ministers resigned as a protest against the Governor supporting an inspector of police, Mr. P. N. Banks, who refused to carry out the Home Minister’s instruction to postpone the trial of leaders of a riot at an up-country estate. The Home Minister complained that Mr. Banks was insubordinate and refused to postpone the trial. Ministers maintained that the question went to the root of the Constitution.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 147, 16 March 1940, Page 16
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112CEYLON CRISIS Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 147, 16 March 1940, Page 16
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