Dr N. M. Perera - Former Cabinet Minister & Member of Parliament.
Augurio Perera | N. M. Perera | J. A. Milton Perera | Sunil Perera | Perera's house in Edgbaston | Dhammika Perera |
Clifford Dodd, an Australian administrator, was appointed (via the Colombo Plan) as the first Director of the Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon and he contributed to the station's popularity across the Indian sub-continent.
It was during this period that he first met and began to work with the leaders of the future Left movement such as N. M. Perera, Colvin R. de Silva, Leslie Goonewardene, who were also studying in London and fellow-students of Marxism.
Of these acts Dr. N. M. Perera said: 'I thought racialism of this type died with Houston Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler.