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Finance Ministers’ Conference in Canada and World Bank meeting in New Delhi-by Sheila de Zoysa Source:Island The 1958 Annual Finance Ministers’ Conference was coming up. An invitation was sent to our Government inviting the Finance Minister and his wife to be guests of the Canadian Government. The Prime Minister, Mr Bandaranaike, affectionately known as Banda, sent the invitation to Stanley as he was then the Finance Minister. Stanley, having thought it over, and knowing that his personal finances wouldn’t permit him to pay for my ticket at top level, decided to decline the invitation to me. Banda was not happy about Stanley’s decision and talked it out with the Governor General, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke. They both agreed that I must go. ...