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From Rochester in Minnesota I drove for about 26 hours in a bus covering over 1200 miles, part of the journey along the Mississippi river, which I crossed, and changing at Des Moines in Iowa and driving through the farming country of Nebraska and again changing at Cheyenne in Wyoming, and reaching Denver, capital of Colorado on 19 September evening. Here I attended a one-day conference of Parents and Teachers Association on House Safety, attended by over 200 parents and teachers from the neighbouring counties. The conference, dividing itself into 4 groups, discussed various possible accidents and safety measures including those relating to fire, burns, household appliances, recreation, food and drugs. Among the matters impressed on the audience were the facts that in U.S. 6 home accidents take place every 2 minutes; accidents kill more children and cripple many more than diseases; 9 billion dollars were lost in last year's accidents; 26 per cent of the accidents are due to drunkennes. I visited a local Recreational Centre which is organised by the County and is affiliated to the National Recreational Association in New York. Activities of the centre include entertainment to troops, sale of refreshments at cheap cost, a gymnasium, games, hobbies, cinema, television, care of children of working mothers, help in finding housing accommodations, hospital visits and classes to teach crafts. The three hour-visit one evening to another such centre, Steeple Community Centre--enabled me to witness a meeting of its committed. Folk dances by its members and exhibitions of colour slides of its activities. This organisation offers opportunities of informal leisure-time education and recreation. A large majority of its members are young people and students. Funds come from the Community chest. Youth programme in India was the subject of my talk at a meeting of about 50 teen-age young men and women, mostly students of the local Methodist Youth Fellowship. I visited a coal mine about 20 miles from Denver and spent several hours in the pit, seeing the extraction of coal by the latest automatic machine and talking to the miners. The mine is a private company headed by two brothers who were first workers in the mine. It was started 18 years ago and covers a space of 1280 acres of space and is 500 feet deep. The daily production in winter is 1700 tons and in summer 400 tons. At the peak period 120 people work. Wages of workers vary from $102 to $116 per week of 40 hours. There is a pension scheme to which both the workers and the employer contribute. After 20 years service a worker gets $100 per month as pension for life and when he is 65 he gets another $100 per month for life under the Federal Government Social Security Scheme to which also he contributes. All workers live 10-12 miles off the mine and drive to work in their own automobiles. About 90 per cent of them have their own houses. If unemployed, a worker receives $28 per week as unemployment compensation. All their supervisors started work as ordinary workers. One of them is the Superintendent who gets a salary of $9000 per year. The proprietors each get about $10,000 as salary and about $20,000 as share of profit per year. About 20 per cent of the profit is put back in the business and a dividend of 10 per cent was given last year to share-holders. A dollar has about the same purchasing power here as a rupee in India. That is, the cost of most articles of food and clothing and other consumer goods here are about 5 times higher than in India. But an American worker earns about 20 times more than an Indian worker. From Denver, which is about 6000 feet high I drove to the top of the magnificent Rocky Mountains. (Mt. Evans 14,263 feet) and "climbed" the remaining 150 feet so as to go to the peak. The leaves were changing colours in autumn and presented a most beautiful sight. Most American mountain roads are extraordinarily wide and well-kept. In many places, over 10,000 feet elevation, there are 4-lane roads. The highest mountain in America is Mt. Whitney in California. On the way I went down two old gold mines which still contained the relics of the miners of gold rush period in 1850's. In Denver I was entertained by a very well-known and prosperous lawyer over 70 years old. He has his servant in his house and he drove

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After 4 days stay in Denver I took a bus again on 24 September morning to drive for 17 hours to cover about 600 miles to reach Salt Lake City, the Capital of Utah State. A good part of the drive was across wonderful bare red mountains including the Continental Divide and Loveland Pass (11,992 feet). Salt Lake City, built by the Mormons, a reformed Christian community, in the valley of Las Vegas Range of mountains, is indeed very beautiful. A good part of my one-day stay here I spent in seeing various things including the Mormon temples, and I went on a skiplift to the 10,018 feet high Mt. Millicent and visited the largest open pit copper mine in the world. It is about 100 years old and 270 tons of ore is dug out every-day. The mine has an area of 9/10 X 1 3/4 miles, 775 feet deep, and looks like a huge playground gallery. I was told 9 million people could sit in it. In the evening I met 8 members, young students, of the executive committee of the United Christian Youth Movement and their adviser, a young priest and had informal discussions on youth work in India and America. It is a Protestant youth organisation and the local band has about 400 members, mostly students.

Driving for 20 hours through Nevada and across the Sierra Nevada Range mountains (Donner peak 7135 feet). I reached San Francisco, over 700 miles from Salt Lake City, early in the afternoon of 26 September. I have made many people elsewhere in America and in Europe jealous about their own big cities by saying that San Francisco is the most beautiful city I have lived in. It has been made beautiful by nature. It is built on many small hills washed by the Pacific and from a distant height looks like a gallery of decorated houses. Several small Islands are connected with San Francisco by most beautiful bridges. The 7-mile long Oakland Bay bridge has three traffic lines and is the longest bridge in the world and the 1-mile long Golden Gate bridge is the largest single-span bridge in the world. The people and the climate are as gracious as the city. It is never very cold and not too hot. I visited the universities of California (Berkeley) and Stanford, each about 30 miles from San Francisco. Both are well-known institutions but are rivals. In the campus of Stanford about 25,000 cars were parked of 60,000 spectators to a football game. In Berkeley I spoke on village development in India at a Quaker Conference when a Ford Foundation film on this work was shown. A visit to Standard Oil Company in Richmond near San Francisco, enabled me to see one of the largest oil refineries in the U.S. They refine about 150,000 barrels of crude oil per day and produces about 2000 different varieties of oil and other articles including petrol for motor car and aeroplanes, lubricating oil and grease, diesel fuel, kerosene and wax. The yearly gross turnover is one billion dollars. Of the 3700 employees, 3300 belong to C.I.O. oil workers union. A worker gets about 2 1/2 dollars per hour, with a 40-hour week. I visited the Ship Building works of the Bethlehem Steel Company and saw the construction of two ships for the Navy. At a fruit cannery in San Jose, about 50 miles from San Francisco, I saw the canning of pears, tomatoes and sprouts. Most of the workers were women. In peak periods about 2000 workers are employed. In the same area I visited several small and big farms of vegetables, fruits and flowers. To two farmers I talked. One of them produces celery, bell pepper and cauliflower on his 60 acre farm. The present price of land is about $5000 per acre. His farming equipment values about $10,000 and it costs about $25 to water (pumped from well) per acre. The owner employs 12 men for 9 months and works 10 hours a day.

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The yearly turn-over per acre is about $900 dollars; half of this is cost. The other farmer had 43 acres of land and produces pears, apricot and berry. In normal times he employes 5 or 6 men and in the harvest time 30.

Leaving San Francisco in the morning and driving 410 miles in 10 hours in bus through beautiful farming, fruit and ranch I reached Los Angeles in the evening of 1 October. Los Angeles is a sprawling large city, the second largest in U.S. and probably has a population of over 4 millions. Here I saw some campaign work, visiting some of the campaign headquarters, and talked with a woman Democratic candidate for the Congress. At the Los Angeles Aircraft Factory in Santa Monica, 18 miles from L.A., I saw the biggest commercial aircraft manufacturing centre in the world and the production of several aeroplanes including a D.C.8, the coming jet transport plane with a speed of 600 miles. It is sometimes difficult to conceive the enormity of the work of this factory. Eighty thousand people work to produce an average of 13 planes per month, each costing about 2 million dollars. A worker receives about $100 per week as pay and a large number of workers, many of them women, are share-holders in the company. Most of the workers belong to local unions which are affiliated to AFL CIO. One of the most beautiful beaches in the world is Santa Monica, a part of which I saw. I visited the office of the World University Service and had informal discussions with some leading members of young Democrats and National Students Association. At the Paramount Studio in Hollywood I saw the shooting of a film and various aspects of film industry. Among other things I saw in Los Angeles were a Ceramic Pottery works, a Super market where you can buy every kind of food article, a Life Insurance Company office and the working I.B. machines and many fruit forms--orange, apple, walnut, olive, etc.--about a 100 miles away.

On 5 October night starting in a bus from Los Angeles and stopping two early hours of the morning to October 6 in Las Vegas in Nevada, I reached Boulder Dam late in the morning. After seeing a film on it I joined a guided tour of this magnificent construction, the highest dam in the Western Hemisphere. It is 726.4 feet high, crest 1,244 feet, top 45 feet thick, bottom 660 feet thick. The dam, completed in 1935 after 4 years work, cost $173 million dollars and "changed the once unruly Colorado River from a natural menace into a national resource". After controlling the floods, the dam provides water for irrigating over 2 million acres of land. The capacity of producing power is 1,354,300 kilowatts. Lake Mead, the catchment area. When full is 115 miles long and is world's largest man-made reservoir. The cost of the dam and power plant is being repaid to the U.S. Government almost wholly by selling electrical energy. From Boulder dam I drove again through the deserts of Arizona to Kingman and changing bus proceeds to Flagstaff, about 600 miles from Los Angeles. In Flagstaff I shared a room with a Phillipine friend in a motel. Motels, a common feature in America, provide simple accommodation and are specially convenient for people who drive their own cars to visit places. The cost is much cheaper than hotels. The following morning I drove 90 miles, partly through beautiful pine forest and ranches, to see the Grand Canyon, Nature's most unique creation. From a distance it gives the impression that a big city has suddenly went deep underground. The layers of heavy bare red and grey rock at some places look like man-made walls and steps. The Canyon is estimated to be 500 million years old and in circumference is 217 miles long, 12 miles across and 1 mile deep. At the bottom where the Colorado river flows, the temperature is 126 degree F.H. Foot steps of Dinosaur believed to be the oldest prehistoric monoth animal are found in this Canyon. On my way back I saw some dunes by Hopi people in their colourful native costume, and several deer in the woods.

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On the morning of 8 October I came to Gallup in New Mexico from Flagstaff, 195 miles having driven through ranch country and barren areas and petrified forest. Here, under the auspices of the Gallup American "Indian" Community Centre I saw various aspects of life of the Navajo (j is pronounced as h) community, numbering about 84,000. There are several other American Indians (name given by Columbus) communities including Pueblo, Hopis, Zunis, Pima, Apaches, Pochis, Cheroki. Their total population is about 400,000. They are a people of Mongoloid origin and mostly live on Government Reservations in the States of S.A. Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, and South Dakota, New York, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. Most people of these communities live in primitive conditions and often avoid the modernized way of life of the larger community. The Government however has taken energetic steps to impart modern education to their children and other economic opportunities to the Community as a whole. Most of these communities have their local elected Councils where they legislate on certain matters concerning themselves. I visited several Navajo families and a Navajo house, called a Hogan, a round one room wooden structure with an then roof and floor, several Navajo schools and monitories and the Navajo Council Chamber and the Department of Interior offices for Navajo community in window rock and a Saw Mill owned by the Navajo community. There is great beauty of water in this area and women drive in horse-cart several miles to collect water from wells. I confused a short-owner in Gallup by saying that I was an Indian. He remarked, pointing to my outfit "You are the first Indian who have been dressed like this." I spent about 2 hours in the uneven 500 feet deep sloping pit of a uranium mine near Gallup and watched the process of extraction of uranium--carnotite generally found in the layers of sandstone and black-shell. Forty people work three shifts in the mine, which is owned by a private company and the rich uranium ore is sold to the Government Atomic Research Department. I spent one evening with some visiting students and local people and took part in a stimulating discussion on whether modern highly industrialised and specialized living effects deeper values of life. At a breakfast meeting of the patrons of Boys Scout, which I attended, a drive was launched to raise funds for Scoutwork. A 125 mile drive to San Juan Irrigation Project enabled me to see how the dawning of a small river turned over a cons deable desert area into a green valley which now produces apes, peaches, corn and alfalfa (a fodder crop).

Leaving Gallup on 12 October morning and changing at Albuquerque and Clovis I drove through Lamyrock mountains and vast expenses of ranch country, reaching Lubbock (about 600 miles) in Texas about midnight. Here I stayed in a private home with 14 other students of various nationalities. My very full and interesting programme in Lubbock included participation in a Staff Seminar in democratic group processes at the Adult Education Department of the Texas Technological College where life and culture of the Hopi community were discussed. This college is in fact a university and has 8000 students and a beautiful extensive campus. A good part of its roads and parking space is occupied by the 5000 motor cars belonging to students. I visited various departments of the college including the college farm where they have some north Indian bulls and spoke to students of 4 classes (about 30 in each class) separately on Secondary Education in India, Party System in India, the Structure of Indian Government and India's Industry and Foreign Trade, and answered many questions. A great number of Students work part time in offices, shops and restaurants to pay part of the cost of their education. The students of various engineering sections each receive, during their final year three or four offers of good employment after their studies. At a lunch meeting which I attended, of 1000 people, a drive was launched for a Community Chest of $300,000. Public charity for social and humanitarian work is very large. The total of national Community Chest drives is $350 million by which 63 million people will be benefited.

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Sixteen million volunteers throughout the country are working to collect this money. I visited the offices of the Community Planning Council, a coordinating body of various social service organisations, and a centre for children of working mothers. At a luncheon meeting of representatives of about 12 youth and social service organisations a discussion took place on youth and social work in U.S. and India in which I took part. In Lubbock I saw an American football game, very different from Indian football. The ball, oval in shape, is sometimes kicked by foot but more often the game consists in carrying the ball in arms or throwing it across, and the opposite party stopping the other and trying to do the same. In Tohoka, about 40 miles away, I took part in a discussion on India with the local Adult Education group where about a dozen teen-age boys and girls were also present. With them I discussed American and Indian Student work and drove to see their social dance club. I was touched to hear one girl say that she and her fellow students between themselves raised some money to pay the cost of education of two school students in India. In Bogar, about 150 miles off I discussed with the local County Representatives the problems of juvenile delinquency in U.S. and India. In Pompa about 20 miles further off at a meeting of Adult Education Group I answered questions on India's economic development and foreign policy. Stopping at Amerillo, 50 miles down on my return journey, I attended a meeting of Y's club at the YMCA. It is an organisation of older young people associated with YMCA. Similarly there is a junior Y's club. To about 60 boys of this club I spoke about children, schools, games animals, and mountains in India. Their interest was enormous and I had to speak few words to them in Hindi, to enable them to hear how it sounds. At a luncheon meeting in YMCA of 30 Executives of various social service organisations I spoke on India today and answered a number of questions. A visit to the local air base enabled me to see the jet plane engineering school (5000 students) and a centre for rehabilitation of servicemen who has abnormal problems. I visited the office of a local newspaper. Most American cities and towns have their own newspapers, many of them publishing both morning and afternoon editions. Their circulation is generally between 50,000 to 500,000 and within the immediate area. New York Times, which publishes several editions and has a circulation of about 2 million, is distributed all over the country. Most daily newspapers have 30 to 50 pages and cost 5 cents each and Sunday newspapers have 100-150 pages, price 3 to 5 times more. The Sunday edition of New York Times sometimes has up to 300 pages, price 25 cents. Generally, advertisements cover over 75 per cent of newspaper space. Advertisement plays an enormous role in American life. Even serious radio and television programmes are interrupted to insert brief advertisements. Texas is known for its wealth, derived mostly from its oil, cotton and ranches. I saw many oil wells, sometimes in backyards of offices and homes, cotton fields and ranches, a cotton textile mill and cotton gins. One day I talked to a farmer, working on a harvester in his cotton field. Of his 800 acres land, he has given 700 acres to another farmer sharing one fourth of his crop with him. On the remaining 100 acres he works alone, producing 500 lbs of cotton per acre. Sometimes he alternates crop with maize, producing 3000 lbs to the acre. He has a gas-operated well, costing $5000, to irrigate his land. Water cost is about 50 per acre. Government buys his cotton at a certain price as they buy wheat and other food crop, under farm aid programme. Land in most parts of America produces one crop between May and October. The remaining 6 months are too cold to grow and in many places land remains covered with snow. Near Penhandle I saw a part of a half-a-million acre cattle ranch, owned by a family and some real "cow-boy" scenes, a young farmer on horse-back charging his mount into herds of young Herford cattle to "cut" (separate) them one by one, with a rope-noose, and two or three others branding the calves! In Texas an average ranch has about 10,000 acres of land and a farm about 3,000 acres.

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On 19 October afternoon I came back to Lubbock in a bus. Here my 4000-mile bus journey ended and I resumed train travel. In the evening I took a train and changing at Sweetwater and Littlerock (Arkansas), Memphis (Tennessee), and travelling through forming and wooded country and crossing the Mississippi again reached Knoxville in Tennessee (1000 miles) early in the morning of 21 October. American trains, always air-conditioned have two classes--Coach and Pullman. I have travelled coach which have comfortable seats and can be put back, like a train plane seats, to sleep. In Pullman, much more expensive, you get a convertible berth-compartment. They are exclusive, on either side of the coach with passage in-between. One can walk through the entire train. Generally a passenger train is pulled by two diesel-locomotive engines. A goods train sometimes has up to 130 wagons and is pulled by 6 to 8 engines. The speed of Express trains is about 60 mph. In Knoxville I visited the headquarters of the Tennessee Valley Authority and, together with a group of other foreign visitors had a good discussion on various aspects of the project and later saw the Norris Dam. The world-famed TVA, created in 1933, consists of 30 small and big dams across rivers in seven states of Tennessee and Mississippi valleys. It has controlled the devastating floods in this vast area, and removing Malaria creating a shore-line of 10,000 miles. The drainage basin of the area of Tennessee River and tributaries is 40,910 square miles. It provides deep-water navigation of 627 miles. It has a power generating capacity of over 9 million kilowatts and in 1956 sold about 53 million dollars worth of power. The integrated power system comprises major hydro-electric plants at 37 dams and 14 steam-electric generating stations. Much of the 58 per cent of TVA's electricity bought by Government in 1956 has been used in the atomic Research Plant near Knoxville. The per capita personal income in the valley region in 1933 was $168 or 45 per cent of the national average; by 1954 it has risen to 31,110 or 63 per cent of the national average. Originally, Federal Government advanced money for TVA. It is now being repaid by installments out of profit. From Knoxville I drove in bus 70 miles up into N. Carolina to see the beautiful Smoky Mountains. On the way I saw three black bears, walking about freely in the crowd of visitors, some offering food. In Texas and Tennessee, both southern States, I saw some aspects of racial desegregation, hotels and restaurants for "Whites only" and separate accommodation for "coloured people" in buses and waiting rooms etc.

Starting in a train from Knoxville on 22 October mid-night I reached Washington, D.C., (500 miles) the U.S. Capital, about noon on 23 October. It is a beautiful city. I spoke to a group of students at the International Student House, attended a meeting of workers in the field of Juvinile delinquency and a lunch-meeting of United Givers Fund where reports were made on the good progress in the collection of the required $6 million for community work. I saw the Indian Ambassador, Mr. Mehta and visited the Embassy. Among the places and buildings of interest I visited were the Capitol Building, the chambers of House of Representatives, Senate, White House, Mt. Vernon in Virginia the home of Washington, the Lincoln Memorial, the Federal Court Buildings, the National Art Gallery and Library of the Congress. There are 11 million books including 400,000 on India, and 740 miles of book-shelves. Twenty three hundred people are employed by the library. Every earning American pays 5 cents per year toward the cost of the library, originally started for use by legislators now more used by members of public. I spent considerable time visiting the headquarters and campaign offices of both Republican and Democratic Parties and those of young Republicans and young Democrats and saw many people coming to cast their "absentee ballots." Over one million voters in Washington belong to other states and send their ballot papers by post to their home state. The youth wings of both the parties very actively took part in the campaign work, especially by supplying volunteers, distributing literature,

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organising rallies, debates and "ringing door bells" etc. Each campaign office had some full-time workers supported by vast numbers of volunteers, many of them women. The night of 27 October I spent with a young American couple in their beautiful house in Fairfax, Virginia. I know them in India.

On 28 October morning I went by train from Washington D.C. to Swarthmore in Pennsylvania, detaining at Chester (120 miles. to spend a day with another young American couple I know in India. Swarthmore has a well-known co-educational college with a lovely campus. I visited the college and later met some students, boys and girls, very fine types, at my friends house, some of them known to visit India. We talked about student and other matters including politics in U.S. and India. I visited Pendle Hill, a Quaker study centre near Swarthmore and met some members of staff and students. The following morning, 29 October, I travelled 12 miles in train to Philadelphia, the 4th largest city in U.S. with a population 3 millions. I spent the day at the headquarters of American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) who have been doing excellent work in India, as in many other countries, for many years. I attended their weekly morning meeting where I briefly spoke on India and later had discussions with the workers of their various departments including youth and student. They have an extensive programme of International Seminars and work-camps for young people. In the evening I went in a train to Hotboro (16 miles) and from there in car to New Hope, a village, where I spent the night with an American couple in their house on a farm. I knew them in India where they worked for some time. The next morning I came back to Philadelphia. I saw a small woolen textile mill where they manufacture woolen fabrics for top coats. The employees work in piece basis and each earn an average of $2 per hour. I saw famous Franklin Science Museum and some of the historical places in Philadelphia including the Independence Hall where the American independence pledge was prepared and first read.

Taking a train I reached New York (91 miles) late afternoon of 30 October. If San Francisco is nature made New York, with 7 million population is made beautiful and vital by men. The city is built on 4 islands connected by bridges. Of these, Manhattan island is the most important and is the centre of various activity. When I docked in New York last July it was hot like Calcutta. Last week it was 34 degrees, wet cold, sometimes accompanied by piercing wind. New York, with its towering tall graceful buildings, is in many ways the nerve centre of America, especially in respect of commerce, the arts and fashion, etc. I spent 10 most interesting and fruitful days in this great city taking part in various activities and seeing various things. With the representatives of the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs, my sponsors, I had very good discussions on youth and student work in U.S. and India and other countries and the ways of increased cooperation between U.S. and Indian youth, and the two countries. I discussed my programme and work with the representatives of National Social Welfare Assembly who arranged my programme and itinerary in U.S. I had talks with the chairman and other representatives of Young Adult Council (WAY Committee in America) and some other members of its committee. They included representatives of the National Federation of Catholic College Students and Student League for Industrial Democracy. I visited the headquarters of YAC and had detailed talks with them about their work in U.S. and closer cooperation between them and Indian WAY Committee. I also visited the headquarters of World University Service in America and spent considerable time talking with them about their work in America and WUS in India. Their interest in Indian WUS was very great. I met several other senior youth and student

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workers connected with YAC and National Students Association, some of whom have been to India recently. A visit to the office of New York City Youth Board and a talk with its head enabled me to see something of the work done by them to deal with the considerable juvenile delinquency that is in New York. There are 950 full-time trained workers and 45 office workers for this work. The Board which is financially supported both by the State and the city coordinates the activities of various agencies. I spent nearly a whole day in the Hunter College, a well-known women's institution, visited classes, taking part in discussions and ending the day by attending a reception given by some 30 leading students. I also saw their efficient Student Council and NSA work. In the night I saw several hundred excited students demonstrating in front of the offices of the Russian Consulate. I visited a meeting of AFL-CIO (labour) where a demand was made to end the Soviet domination in Hungary. I attended a Training class in Trade Union Methods of International Ladies Garment Workers Union. A visit to a 60 year old organisation--Citizens Union--enabled me to see the important work it does in improving the quality of local government, educating the public in record to bills in Legislatures, election laws, housing, civil liberties, assessing the quality of election candidates etc. Free public ty is given through press, radio, television etc. There are 3000 members but a much larger number actively support this work. At a meeting at the office of the League of Women Voters, attended by a number of foreign journalists and myself, the whole election procedure in U.S. and the voting system were explained and an automatic voting machine was shown to us. On the Election Day I visited 4 Polling Centres in one building. A voter comes in and signs against his earlier signature taken at the time of registration. Then he goes to the automatic Polling machine. When he presses a lever a thick curtain draws round him from three sides with the keys for polls in front of him. The names of Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates are written there and the other offices in Congress and Senate etc. He presses the buttons according to his choice and his votes are recorded by machine. The officials at a Polling Centre consist of 4 members of Election Board, who are representatives of Republican and Democratic Parties, one Inspector on behalf of each party and also one "challenger" from each party, and a policeman. At 9 p.m. when the polling ends the Inspectors count the votes in machines and telephone the results to their Party headquarters for publication. At the same time the ballot record boxes are taken by police to the Police Headquarters where votes are counted and checked and results announced. After spending the first hours of the evening watching the results on television I visited the Police headquarters and saw the process of counting of votes and later visited the Democratic and Republican Centres at two premier hotels where hundreds of party workers collected to see the election returns and to celebrate the occasion. I returned home about 4 in the morning. A visit to the New York Housing Authority Projects gave me the opportunity to see the functioning of their 77 projects. These are 3-4 roomed flats rented at a cheap rate to 89,000 low-income group families. The $150 million so far spent on this project has been contributed by the Federal State, City and International Women's Garment Workers Union. I visited the U.N. headquarters and attended its first emergency session early this month to debate the crisis in Egypt. I went to Brookhaven in Long Island to see the National Laboratory for Basic Atomic Research. Many universities and industrial organisations cooperate with Government in this project. My other activities in New York included visits to New York Public Library, offices of Ford Foundation and, Carnegie Foundation, Harpers Magazine, the Coliseum, a show of dress and other commercial articles, the Hayden Planetarium, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Arts, the Natural History Museum, the Bronx Zoo, and the National City Bank of New York, the New York Stock Exchange Macys (largest department store in the world) and 102-story Empire State Building. I witnessed Bernard Shaw's

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The Apple Cart on stage, a rehearsal of "Rigoletto," an Italian opera piece at the Metropolitan Opera House and a combined programme of orchestra, ballet and cinema at Radio City Music Hall, the largest auditorium of this kind in the world, with a seating capacity of 12,000. I saw a horse-show in Madison Square Garden and I went in a steamboat round Manhattan island.

From Detroit I will go to eastern Canada on 18 November for about 10 days and shall sail from Montreal to England on 27 November. After spending a few days each in London and Paris I shall fly to India reaching Delhi about 13 December.

I have seen and learnt many, many new things in America in the past 4 1/2 months and it has been a most enriching experience for me from many viewpoints. I have received great kindness and affection and help from her most hospitable and friendly people whom I love and I feel very sad at the thought that shall have to leave this great country in a few days. At the same time I hear the call of India, and how greatly I look forward to seeing you all again, resuming my work in Delhi, perhaps bringing to it some new knowledge and experience from my visit abroad.

With warm greetings,