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GERERAL A. G. L. McNAUGHTON, Representative of Canada to the Security Council of the United Rations:

“Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I speak only to add my voice, as the President of the Security Council, and on behalf of the Canadian delegation, in expressing our sincere sympathy to India in the tragedy which has come to their country and indeed to the whole world.

“The death of Mahatma Gandhi is a catastrophe, not only for India, but for people of good will everywhere, and I know that countless numbers are sharing our deep regret at his passing and of the loss of wide influence which he has exercised for good and for peace.

“He has given his life in a great cause, and we who have shared his aspirations can only hope that his death, even more them his life, will cause his ideals to continue to be a powerful influence for peace and for harmony and for freedom.”

PHILIP NOEL-BAKER. Representative of the United Kingdom to the Security Council of the United Rations:

“Mr. Chairman, and friends: I am here to pay tribute of my government and my nation to the lost leader whose life and death we commemorate today. No speaker can do so with deeper feeling or with a greater sense of loss than I do.

“Gandhi struggled for many years for the independence of India from British rule. Gandhi won his struggle. India is free, but no people in the world received the news of his assassination with greater grief and consternation than my own.

“Our nation mourned his death. They venerate his memory, because they knew his greatness — the purity of his inspiration, his abiding universal love for all mankind. The London Times, so often our national mouthpiece, said, in writing of his death: ‘Gandhi will take his place in