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dated July 8, 1956: Tribute to V.S.S. Sastri

"Sweetness and light" was the epitome of what the Right Hon. V.S. Srinivasa Sastri stood for, said Dr. C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar, while unveiling his portrait at the Srinivasa Sastri Hall in Mylapore, Madras, under the auspices of the South Indian National Association and Ranade Library, on July 6. He said "this prince of moderates" was "courteous and polite in his approach but strong and firm in essence." A great scholar, a fine speaker, thinker and statesman, "he showed us the way in which we might be humanists in spite of being politicians, and men and women in spite of aspiring to offices and elections." Mr. M. Patanjali Sastri, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who presided, said Mr. Sastri was responsible for dispelling the notion in foreign countries that Indians were an inferior race.

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