POONA: Addressing a public meeting under the auspices of the Bombay Presidency Muslim Educational Conference, Professor Nirmal Kumar Gupta of Jagannath college, Dacca gave his impressions of England, Germany and Italy. Mr. Ahmed E.H. Jaffer presided.

He said that, while in England, he was struck by the wonderful integrity of the English people and he thought that the British people were about the most dignified and disciplined people in Europe. Unluckily, he added that most English people out in India were not English and were very often what their environments made them. The English people had their vices too but they had more virtues than vices. There was a good deal of misunderstanding in India between the English and the Indian people and that was due to mutual lack of knowledge.

Referring to Germany, he said that [it was] not Goethe’s or Max Müller’s Germany but only that of the Nazis. He gave one or two instances to show how life under the Nazis was not free life and how there was no liberty. Referring to the Italians he thought they were poor and a backnumber of Europe. (Dawn, Delhi)

Published in Dawn, July 22nd , 2014