Prayers for Ceylon's dead Premier

SPECIAL prayers were said in churches throughout Ceylon this week for the Prime Minister, Mr. D. S. Senanayake, who died in hospital on Saturday night after a fall from his horse.
Catholics, in common with the rest of their fellow-countrymen, are mourning the death of a statesman in whom wisdom and tolerance were combined with considerable planning and administrative ability.
"Mr. Senanayake was a close personal friend of the Archbishop of Colombo, Mgr. Cowdray," a spokesman at Ceylon House in london told THE CATHOLTC HERALD this week. " A devout Buddhist himself, the late Premier was a man of remarkable tolerance. He was educated at the Anglican College of St. Thomas."
Apart from the rapid and successful programme of land cultivation which he inaugurated on forming his first Government, Mr. Senanayake won the esteem of Christians by his educational reforms which enabled them to send their children to church schools maintained by the State.