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dated December 13, 1957: Goodwill ambassador

From an editorial:

It was really a pleasure to learn from Mr. Dalip Saund at his press conference in Madras on December 12 that the people of the United States were warmly sympathetic to India in her efforts to hold fast to the democratic way of life and to sustain it by all-round planning. It was even more gratifying to be given the assurance that he would do his utmost, in the United States Congress and outside, to foster understanding and mutual trust between the two countries. Mr. Saund has unique qualifications for such a job. He is Indian by birth and went to the United States in 1920 to study agriculture at the University of California. He graduated in 1924 with a Ph.D. in mathematics and proceeded to build up a prosperous fertilizer business in California. In 1942 he helped to organise the Indian Association of America, with some 2,500 members. He was elected Judge of Justice Court in Westmorelandin 1952. Mr. Saund was elected Chairman of the Imperial Country Democratic Central Committee, was made a member of the Executive Committee of the California State Democratic Committee and was elected temporary Chairman of the 1956 California Democratic State Convention. Mr. Saund made history in the last American general elections when, as a Democratic candidate from the Twentyninth Congressional District, he won a traditionally Republican seat. He thus became the first Indian-born member of the American Congress. He was elected member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives. Mr. Saund thus belongs to a select body of men who help to determine American foreign policy. He is qualified to interpret India to the U.S.A. and America to our people. He may be relied on to throw his weight in favour of democracy and peace.

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