St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-12
Minnesota Eyewitness
By BRENDA UELANp

sowies who was President Truman ambassador 70
man say % Nv people at the Radsson had heard
Bows is true ambassador what AN
should De- | only wish there him.
And Mrs Roosevelt Olaf College told how he and NJ, ,
as ty sympathetic actually reversed the
ism Of ndia to America trust into surprised :,
what Americans really like
When the weather became ana an inferno the Ro
Ian - retreat to the cool mountains people
working among the Indians with passionate devotion His
little schoolgirl daughter all her SATURDAYS in cr Gov t.
Juan o1es and gave up her to the United
10y eHeeriuIy working You only Is million
are wen educated and the 800 read But this LANGUAGE
m they could understand in flash they Gandhs
AND the news spread like a prairie fire
large friendly American business man - ... -.
VII | prov" naiF praeal and crooked op-sded
smile and an angelic spirit And introduced by Philip
Pisbury he had time funny story but rushed int, [
us all that he could about India.
He talks hashingy notes and YOU could have heard
pm drop every word sensible arrestng important
he sad that to Americans Asans insctable that is the
word we like to and an undffereutate
mass OF faces with slant them not
all inscrutabe"
Now Asia what we call atbe orO,a
they are neither communist democratic Which path win
at a terrible crossroads II Js csr % -, , y
democratic for India is the key o whole thing
The first thing to do is understand First of all their
~ 0r eoomam For two hundred years white exploit
ed the used them ruled them Remember that all
their leaders have been Dutch tails Neh
was in British jail for IA years years of his life
But what hurts them most is corrodng of our
white arrogance and doc assumption superiority so shock
ed by what business said introducing speaker
I'D
anese and not the thought we wouldn't destroy
white people attitude that
frghtfu hateful unorgivabe always their
implacable bitterness something the Asian SOUL
When India freed the Russians way
Only in too slow
giving freedom and votes and the right disagree mscrp
scopc individually in the ndvid
ua in the perfectabhy of that walk is to
walk We going to try the democratic way
so when we dsapprove of Nehru he
for He united Constitution of 1850 and
100 million Indians voted and knew what they voting
were for democratic because Gandhi
they said.
Well they have gargantuan plan irrigation pro-
ject as large the state of New Jersey il
erates extension work for better balanced diet
succeeds they will decide democracy workable makes
if it fas?--
Lenin said THE through Calcutta and Pekn
The Russians have far
important they tehnicians engineers
teachers helping China They will everything everything
India
Then he told help stay democratic we
must learn can't master them insist they
buy them.
when give money apt to ask Are they
grateful" We'll think way" earnestly give
expect do to be properly
grateful don't ask him explain
have made this meal possible appalled, laughter
what do)
IF only Say to India Look here
Once exploited billions
We'd like to help YOU now by giving tiny bit of back This is yours
by right. We want to you succeed
They great deal They jefferson Franklin Lincoln
Tom Paine Constitution why
reach back and return to her great ideals?
And and hear Americans around oh just
dealsm got to be tough passonately disagreed
these fighting
the negative We must old ideals into foreign
And then he said rapidly and earnestly IF
2h military budget would
world That's much wouldn't
teachers
Remember that the wealth the real India millions
of hands and minds of Indians put to work"
And very he happened to make comforting
mentthat American business India oil
fine work He meant that they intelligent creative
agnaive sympathetic and apparently racial snobs
the old kind wretched revolving acquive
business understand the
equality and help They too showing Indians that Americans
and democrats be all right I hope