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 way that the world has followed through these many centuries, and it has brought us to the atomic bomb. The other is the way marked out by the few great souls of humankind, and it has led us to Mahatma Gandhi.

“It is now for us to choose between the way of death or the way of life, for there is none other.”

M. A. KASSAN ISAPHANI, Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States:

“Mr. Chairman, we have assembled here this afternoon to mourn the death of one of the most outstanding personalities of our age. It is indeed an irony that one who devoted his life to the promotion of peace, and was the apostle of non-violence, should have met his end by violence. His loss is not only a loss to India, but also to Pakistan and to the rest of the world.

“We of Pakistan share our grief with India, and mourn his death.

“Mr. Gandhi devoted almost four decades of his life to the struggle for freedom and to the uplift of the poor. Today, ladies and gentlemen, India stands on the edge of a precipice. One false step by the Hindus or the Moslems will send them crashing headlong to their doom. I hope and pray that such a step will not be taken.

“The best monument that can be erected to the memory of Mr. Gandhi by the people of India will be the re-establishment of communal peace and harmony for which he lived and died. If this is done, Gandhi will not have died in vain.”

SIR MOHAMMED ZAFRULLAH KHAN, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Head of the Delegation of Pakistan to the Security Council of the United Nations:

“Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: There is little to be added in formal words to the spontaneous and universal sense of grief and loss to which expression has already been given in all parts of the world to what one feels in the passing of Gandhi. We each appreciated him in our own way. That which appealed to me as his greatest quality was the stand that he took