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VMeoPandit Seenas West's Envoy, Too, to Russia! qdia’s Ace Diplomat Likely to Interpret Bech Systems to Each Other, While Building Indian-Sovict Peace Without Puppet Status By Pearl S. Buck ‘able pride in the faci that a som- dia. it : India is sending her most no-,an has beer chosen for this the same danger Goes not face _ ‘e womap to Soviet Russia as Mest important past Perhaps’ India can, it is t } th obassador. Mrs. Vijaya Lakshm: only an Avian country would send! solution for some of he bakit e andit is @ sister of Jawaharlal 8 Soman in such a case Women from us, too. but sh naiigweil ehru, but this is pot the rea-{!3 ASia have held Aigner honor satisned with our Cor tin ng Drac- yn she has recelved this high'than they have in the West Thelt iice of Tene many months in jail as a political]! her home province and by her, brilliant statesmanship as head of, the cause of equality for the In- the American press her fear speeches at that time know how well ahe conducted her case. Spe fs the true daughter of her father, lish as her own tangue _ Knst- West Link Yet aD of us who know HH Tha EE Americans. too. for she has tw | Visited the United Btates for long , traveling far among our people. Perhaps she will be able ¢o explain some of the things which the people of Russia do not unéerstar.d about us. But her first task will be to weld firm bonds of friendship between India and Soviet Russis. Hers ts the most delicately dificult post in the world. Without being in . sympathy, either politically or a economically, with Communism. a Mrs. Pandit ts much too wir & Fag! gtateaman not to know that India must have good relations with Boviet Russie, regardiess of difter- ences in thei society and in their forma of goverament With ner world point of view, Mrs Pandit will be able to eee each country. to each apother and to Asis is sure that she will cement is. To her anything uld be unthinkable foliy. ‘ prisoner, by her successful career|{uere are = many distinguished ' ap @ member of the ministry to women there besides Mrs. Pandit. indicates several points of signifi- the Indian delegation to the ,°ance. It means that India con- United Nations, where ahe made ,S:ders Soviet Russia worthy of her best: if means, too. that India ay gees not yield anything of her in jowN independence and dignity to eas {the stronger power-—-po one who ignows Mrs. Pandit can imagine her yielding anything without be- ig ready do s0, for good rea- sons of her own and for the wel- fare of har country. an will represent India in Soviet; means, too, that India intends to of|iearn from Russia all she can ltoday has many of the same prob- lems that Russia had after the first ner own and Soviet Russia, in its; world setting, as well as in rela-| between India and Soviet - cline. Mrs. bijera 1 cannot refrain from considers wat. Bhe has achieved her position ,W-dom. their humanity, their! peo; Ou wo her own right, by many years of jwit, their shrewdness have been vores 2 ac ‘dein india. Gevoued service to the cause of ;¥aiced there for centuries WOMEN anere the . ; * 7 people vary ip color Indian independence, even by{have held equal piace with men | irom the fair Aryans of the nortb ciety would scarcely do tn India, n modern politica) India. andit, the dark Dravidian stock of the south. The mingling there has gone on for centuries. Also, our ecopomic conditions are too differ- ent. We are highly industrialized and India oust now set about her But that she has been chosen - WE learn Prem Rosia Mra. = Pandit's appointment which may help her withyper own marfifold problems of a variety of ples, illiteracy, poverty and lack of industrialization. Indeed, India world war, when an imperial form of government was removed and|really meacs. he ts 6 good ex- the people of a vast. inchoate pop- {Ample of tt in her ewn perpon. wlation found themselves faced AD i aB, # is the case of & with the necessity for a new kind |highly tnteresting person put into of government, ane whoee empha- sis was upon the practical matters of enough food, education. public health and industries, all to be as- sured as quickly as possible. But Russia worked under the terrible pressure of threat of war, and In- g E f he EE ty : g BF isl | 5 t Lakshmi Pandit, India's new Ambassador to the U. s S. R.. shown with her brother, Jawahertal Nehre. Indian leader. the opening of Conatitucat Assembly in New Dethi, lest EL rcomber daa alam TAR wet Rare AE ee