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Lord Soulbury, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip at Peradeniya University-by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Queen<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

This striking and rare photograph from 20th April 1954 shows Lord Soulbury leading the young Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their way to inaugurate the formal opening of the University of Peradeniya at its \u201cSenate Building\u201d \u2014 whereupon Prince Philip displayed acumen in deploying the original words \u2013\u201cmore open than usual\u201d when verbally administering the opening. What apt words!<\/span><\/p>\n

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This Pix has been sent to me by Gerald Peiris.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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While the royal duo are clearly the stars of this outstanding moment in the island\u2019s history, I prefer, here, to\u00a0highlight the importance of two British gentlemen in Sri Lanka\u2019s coming of age: namely, Lord Soulbury and Sir Ivor Jennings.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I conjecture that Jennings is hidden from view in this picture. It would have been the clout he wielded with Soulbury and the DS Senanayake Cabinet from 1948 onwards that enabled him to \u2018deploy\u2019 the royal couple at this momentous occasion (one that is deeply meaningful\u00a0 for all those, such as Peiris and myself, educated at this site in the 1950s and 1960s).<\/span><\/p>\n

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To drive this line of argument home, let me present other photographs which mark the role of Sir Ivor Jennings and Lord Soulbury in Sri Lanka\u2019s difficult and tortuous passage to \u201cdominion status\u201d \u2014 a political position that was perhaps a notch short of \u201cindependence\u201d in a strict sense, but no impediment in the long run.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sir Andew Caldecott<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Ivor Jennings as Principal University College 1942 et seq &<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Layton was appointed\u00a0Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon<\/a>\u00a0(Sri Lanka) in March 1942,[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and served till August 1944,\u00a0with Oliver Goonetilleka serving as Assistant Civil Defence Commissioner \u2026. and thus providing a direct conduit between DS\u00a0 Senanayake and Layton\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The complicated and tortuous passage from partial political control under the Donoughmore Constitution from 1931 calls for a close study of the period 1938 (when the Andrew Caldecott Reforms Despatch was sent) to 1948.\u00a0 The most thorough writings on this topic are those by KM de Silva; but fresh work by Harshan Kumarasingham, this writer and Jane Russell is also pertinent. note that the Soulbury CommissIon\u201ds recommendations were a major step in the process towards dominion status ,,,, and as it happened, their itinerary during the working visit to the island was oganised by OEG. That he was in their ears in judicious manner is not in doubt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such processes must be digested when addressing the popular theory that Sri Lanka received independence on a plate because of the brave and sturdy Indian struggle for independence.<\/span><\/p>\n

That theory is quite naive. It is oblivious\u00a0 \u2014 stark blind \u2014 to the fact that the British Navy was of limited use in suppressing any armed stuggle in India \u2014 in contrast to island Ceylon \u2026. and to the implications of World War II for the island\u2019s significance to Britain and its allies in the period 1941-1950s.\u00a0 It must not be forgotten that the war situation in the Pacific and Indian Ocena in the period 1942-45 was so perilous that Admiral Geoffrey Layton was appointed\u00a0Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon<\/a>\u00a0(Sri Lanka) in March 1942,<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

Subsequently,\u00a0 the pressure mounted by DS Senanayake and OE Goonetilleka (with Jennings in a key advisory role in the background) in the period 1943-45 was such that DS Senanayake was able to walk up to the Colonial Office in 1945\u00a0 [he had flown to UK] and ask them: \u201cwhat has India done that Ceylon has not done\u201d during the war (or words to that effect).<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0DS and OEG with a British VIP<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Colonial Office had no retort at hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

The stark fact was that the India Office had more weight than the Colonial Office because the political questions associated with India were far, far more important for Brtiain THEN in 1945-47. The little island had to wait for the sub-continental situation to be sorted out.<\/span><\/p>\n

*****<\/span><\/p>\n

PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

De Silva, Chandra R.\u00a0<\/strong>1997\u00a0Sri Lanka. A History<\/em>, 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Edn. New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House.<\/span><\/p>\n

De Silva, Kingsley M.\u00a0<\/strong>n. d. \u201cThe Second World War and the Soulbury Commission, 1939-1945 \u2026 The Stationary Office,\u201d\u00a0http:\/\/sas-space.sas.ac.uk\/6132\/2\/vB2_Sri_Lanka_Part_I.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

De Silva, Kingsley M.\u00a0<\/strong>1993\u00a0Sri Lanka. Problems of\u00a0<\/em>Governance, Kandy, ICES.<\/span><\/p>\n

H.Kumarasingham 2018\u00a0<\/strong>Constitution-making in Asia.\u00a0<\/em>Decolonisation and State-Building in the Aftermath of the British Empire<\/em>, Routledg3<\/small><\/span><\/p>\n

H.Kumarasingham 2013 \u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/280664428_\u2019The_Jewel_of_the_East_yet_has_its_Flaws\u2019_The_Deceptive_Tranquillity_surrounding_Sri_Lankan_Independence\/citation\/download\u2018The Jewel of the East yet has its Flaws\u2019 The Deceptive Tranquillity surrounding Sri Lankan Independence,\u201d \u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Roberts 2020<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe Democratization Process in Ceylon, 1832-1948,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2020\/09\/12\/the-democratisation-process-in-ceylon-1832-1948\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Roberts 2018\u00a0\u201cHow It Beccame. Documenting the cEylon National Congress,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>22 May 2018,\u00a0https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2018\/05\/22\/how-it-became-documenting-the-ceylon-national-congress\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jane\u00a0Russell 1983<\/strong>\u00a0Communal Politics under the Donoughmore Constitution<\/em>, Dehiwela, Tisara Prakasakayo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jane\u00a0<\/strong>Russell\u00a0<\/strong>1981\u00a0Our George. A Biography of George Edmund De Silva<\/em>, Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jane Russell\u00a0<\/strong>2017 \u201cJane Russell on Sri Lankan Political \/history in Debate with Kumarasinghma\u2019s Readings,\u201d 24 May 2017,\u00a0https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2017\/05\/24\/jane-russell-on-sri-lankan-political-history-in-debate-with-kumarasinghams-readings\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

PS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This new find (mine by accident) depicts another ceremony which led me to wonder if it was in Kandy or Trinity College; but Sam Samarawickrema indicated that it is likely to have been a gathering in front of the Colombo Town Hall with the local dignitary being the Mayor TN Rudra \u2026 and this\u00a0 has been confirmed independently by Pamela Cooray who noted the<\/em>\u00a0pottu\u00a0on the sareed lady\u2019s forehead as clinching identification.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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