dated June 30, 1951: Tribute to Rajendra Prasad

Mr. Harekirushna Mahtab, Minister for Commerce and Industry, Government of India, unveiled a portrait of the President of the Indian Union at the premises of the Mahajana Sabha on June 28, at Madras. Babu Rajendra Prasad, he said, was the embodiment of the spirit of friendliness and tolerance towards opponents, whatever might be his difference of opinion with them in politics, which spirit was essential for the success of a democratic Constitution.

Mr. R. R. Dalavai, president of the Mahajana Sabha expressed his gratitude to the President of India for kindly sending his autographed portrait for being unveiled at the Sabha premises.

Mr. Mahtab said that the name of the Madras Mahajana Sabha was familiar to all politically-minded persons all over India, and it was in the fitness of things that the portrait of the first President of the Indian Republic should be put up at the Sabha premises, because it was due to the sacrifice and sufferings of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Rajendra Prasad and a few others that they had secured independence for India.

Opposition parties were coming up in India, Mr. Mahtab observed, and he had been trying to find out points of difference between the Congress and those parties. He could not discover any point of difference except the attitude, ``I am better than you.'' They should try and avoid such an attitude somehow. For adopting the right attitude, Babu Rajendra Prasad could be their ideal. There is no humbler man than he.

Request for mediation

President Truman said in Washington that he had not been asked to mediate in the Anglo-Persian dispute over oil nationalisation. He said he had received a letter from the Persian Prime Minister, Dr. Mossadeq.

Though the situation in Persia was serious, President Truman said there was plenty of opportunity for a settlement. He said the Anglo- Persian Oil Company and the British and Persian Governments should get together and arrive at an early equitable settlement.

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