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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 21, No. 7. June 11, 1958

Britannia Rules the Waves

Britannia Rules the Waves.

Now we read of the dispatch of a warship to the Maldive Islands. For some time Britain has been in trouble with this small protectorate over the establishment there of an air base. An agreement was reached some time ago for the establishment of a base on the small island of Gan, one of the Maldive group. It was agreed that the few hundred inhabitants of the islands should be transferred elsewhere at British expense and resettled. Since then there has been a change of government in the Maldives and the new administration has shown itself very critical of the agreement establishing the base. So when the British High Commissioner in Ceylon recently visited the islands in an effort to patch up the trouble he travelled in a British warship. Naturally enough this has drawn a protest from the Maldive Government alleging that Britain is bullying a small nation at naval gunpoint.