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TING-PU TSIANG, Representative of China to the Security Council of the United Nations:

“Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: In the long history of the cultures of the East, China acknowledges two great debts to India. The first debt is the religion of Buddhism, and the second great debt that China owes to India is the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.

“We in China today lament the passing of Gandhi as much as the Indian people themselves. As we in China understand the position of Gandhi in the world, it appears to us in recent light, that we have many problems, international problems, racial problems, class problems, social problems.

“One attitude is that these problems, most of them cannot be solved. Let them alone. Let us accept the status quo. That is one attitude.

“There is another attitude: These evils should be removed. Let us take arms. Let us fight. Whatever the cost in blood, we must rid the world of these evils. That is another attitude.

“There is a third attitude. The third approach to our problem is the approach of Gandhi. We should work for the enlargement of human freedom in every sphere, but we must achieve our ends through non-violence.

“Mr. Gandhi has not achieved all the freedoms that he hoped to achieve, but he has achieved a great deal, and he has achieved what he has achieved through the method of non-violence. The methods he used will have to be studied in relation to other countries, in relation to other problems. We in China feel that the central problem of man is how to win these freedoms that we all prize through the Gandhi method of non-violence.”

WALTER WHITE, Executive Secretary, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Member, Executive Committee, India League of America:

“Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I have attended many memorial meetings, but never before have I felt so deep a sense of inadequacy