Srilanka, Feb. 6 -- The special commemorative supplement published with the Daily Mirror and the Daily FT on 4th February 2025 to mark the 77th anniversary of Independence, and especially its lead article, contains several inaccurate statements.
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The Ceylon (Constitution) Order in Council 1946 came into force in 1947. Commonly described as the "Soulbury Constitution", it was in fact drafted in Ceylon, on the instructions of Mr. D.S. Senanayake, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Ministers, and Mr. J.H.B. Nihill, the Legal Secretary, by a young Assistant Legal Draftsman, Bernard Percival Peries, on the basis of the report of the Royal Commission headed by Lord Soulbury, the Ministers' Draft prepared by Sir Ivor Jennin...