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...fringes of the conference, special pleaders abounded. There were Zionists, Laborites, two representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and six Poles (three Warsaw, three London) operating as news papermen. Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, distinguished sister of the imprisoned Indian nationalist leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, challenged the right of the titled Indian delegates to speak for the Indian people...
...Including Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru; Mohandas K. Gandhi was released ten months...
...Delhi still had Gandhi's once potent political machine, the Congress Party, jacked up. Still at odds with Gandhi and his party was the increasingly powerful Moslem League. Still in jail were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Kalam Azad and some 8,000 other great & small leaders of the Congress Party. Even when, or if, the Congress Party recovered from British pressures and its own mistakes, and began to function again, it would not be the same without the binding personality of Gandhi...
Chandralekha Shukla, 19-year-old Wellesley junior, niece of imprisoned Pandit Nehru of India, where she was once locked up herself, told a Manhattan reporter: "I suppose I should be glad I went to jail, because I got an A for some character studies at Wellesley as a result of having observed people closely while there...
Besides its recitals of Oriental music, the Oriental Club, which is a little more than two years old, has given lectures, discussion groups, and last summer it held a dance in conjunction with Lowell House to honor Pandit Nehru's nieces, who are studying at Wellesley...