A series ofsixprogrammes
6-Looking Outwards
Ceylon
The foreign policies of most Western countries have been built up over long periods of time as their contacts with other parts of the world developed. New countries, springing into a highly organised world of foreign relations, have to make up their minds almost overnight about whom they want for friends and allies and why they want them. In this programme Ceylon is taken as the example in examining the considerations a new country has in mind in settling these questions.
DAVID WALKER introduces the views of Richard SCOTT on foreign policy and of four Ceylonese speakers on the particular case of one new country.