INDIA THE WARNING ON THE WALLS AN OLD CHINESE PROVERB SAYS, WHERE 
THERE IS AN EXCESS OF CEREMONY, THERE IS SURE TO BE 
DECEIT . " IN RED CHINA LAST WEEK, CEYLON'S VISITING PRIME 
MINISTER, MRS . SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE, SNIFFED INCENSE, WAS WINED AND DINED 
BY PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI, AND WAS EVEN TAKEN TO SEE A 
RELIC OF BUDDHA'S TOOTH . REASON FOR THE INDULGENT TREATMENT WAS 
THE SET OF PROPOSALS THAT MRS . BANDARANAIKE BROUGHT TO PEKING 
AS SPOKESMAN FOR THE SIX NONALIGNED NATIONS GHANA, EGYPT, INDONESIA, BURMA, 
CAMBODIA AND CEYLON WHO MET IN COLOMBO LAST MONTH AND TOOK 
IT UPON THEMSELVES TO ARBITRATE THE BLOODY HIMALAYAN BORDER DISPUTE BETWEEN 
CHINA AND INDIA . THE NEUTRALS' SOLUTION DELIGHTED THE CHINESE, FOR 
IT SET UP A DEMILITARIZED ZONE ALONG THE HIMALAYAN FRONTIER AND 
ACTUALLY GAVE RED CHINA MORE TERRITORY IN INDIA THAN IT HAD 
OCCUPIED BEFORE ITS SUDDEN INVASION LAST OCTOBER . EXPECTING AT LEAST 
A TOKEN CONDEMNATION OF CHINESE AGGRESSION FROM ITS OLD NEUTRALIST CRONIES, 
INDIA WAS, TO SAY THE LEAST, DISAPPOINTED . IN NEW DELHI, 
PRIME MINISTER JAWAHARLAL NEHRU RECEIVED MRS . BANDARANAIKE COOLLY AFTER HER 
TEN-DAY SOJOURN IN CHINA, BUT DID NOT REJECT HER PROPOSALS OUTRIGHT 
. NEHRU STILL HOPES TO GAIN TIME TO BUILD UP HIS 
SHATTERED ARMED FORCES . TOO MUCH DELAY, HOWEVER, COULD TRY CHINA'S 
PATIENCE ; STILL SCRATCHED ON MANY BUILDINGS IN THE HIMALAYAS IS 
THE OMINOUS WARNING LEFT BY CHINESE TROOPS AS THEY WITHDREW AFTER 
LAST MONTH'S CEASEFIRE : " WE MAY HAVE TO RETURN . 
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