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“I do not know whether these articles of yours have been brought to the

notice of our Prime Minister. May I take the liberty to suggest that it would

be in the interests of India if you send the copies of your articles to him.

In case you do not feel it proper, would you permit me to send the same to our

Prime Minister. You do not know how much pleasure I have got in going

through the articles. I pray to God that He may keep you fit so that you

may be able to give such ad vices whenever necessary.”

Mr. Justice Chandrashekhar Aiyar wrote as follows:

“Your Independence Day article is brilliant which is only to be expected

of a person of your mental calibre and wide experience—judicial and administrative.

With your ferventa appeal for unity, sanity and integrity, most sensible and thoughtful .people will find themselves in perfect agreement.”

In the year, 1957. I thought it proper in view of the discussions and the arguments that had been going on in the Security Council

about the accession of Kashmir to write in the papers about the Kashmir problem in its true perspective.

The articles were subsequently gathered together and published as a

small brochure by my friend Principal Sri Ram.

The Union Government distributed about 1,000 copies of the pamphlet as the

background material to the members of the Security Council and the

foreign press. I was glad to find Mr. Krishna Menon adopting my

thesis about the Accession of Kashmir to India in the Security Council.

About this article on Kashmir I received a very large number of letters. The Attorney General of India, Mr. M. C. Setalvad,

who had led one of the Indian Delegations to the Security Council

on the Kashmir Issue wrote:

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