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Article: Junius Jayewardene.(former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 23, 1996
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AT A conference in San Francisco in 1951, called to discuss a peace settlement with Japan, Junius Jayewardene spoke for magnanimity towards the old enemy. It was an unexpected sentiment at the time. Japan's cruelties in the 1930s and in the second world war, which even now, many years later, continue to be a disturbing subject, were then fresh in people's minds. Mr Jayewardene, appealing especially to Asians at the conference, asked them to extend "the hand of friendship" and close "this chapter in the history of man". His speech, the shortest at the conference, was received with acclamation. The Japanese prime minister, Shigeru Yoshida, usually an impassive figure, burst ...
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