MINISTERIAL CRISIS
SETTLEMENT IN CEYLON
COLOMBO, March 14. The Ministerial crisis has been settled. The Governor has consented not to interfere with existing arrangements governing Ministers' relations with heads of departments pending the report of a select committee of inquiry. It was reported on February 27 that all six of the Ceylon State Council Ministers had 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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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 15 March 1940, Page 7
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