Coll 28/127(1) ‘Persia. Indian Interest in Cultural & Technical Development.’ [‎10r] (19/131)

This shows that while India is in the war
she has been mercifully spared its horrors—a
blessing for which the mighty Allied
Services, as also the Government and
peoples of British India and the Indian
States deserve the highest praise. We have
fcjeen, so to say, eye-witnesses to the excel-
lerrt morale of our Indian cousins. It was
in the course of our tour that we received
the news that Japan had ventured to cross
the Burma frontier into Assam, yet every
where that we went we found a sense of
confidence under-lying all civil and military
activities.”
Continuing, the Leader of the Mission
said : “ Ours is the first Cultural Mission
that has come to India and will, we hope,
be the prelude to many such contacts. We
are sincerely grateful to the Government of
India for making it possible for us to study
the educational and cultural conditions of
this country at first hand. We are also
grateful for this to our own Government who
under the inspiring leadership of His
Majesty the Shah is playing its full part in
contributing to the final victory of the
United Nations of which Iran too is a proud
member. Brief as our stay in this country
has been we have learnt many things and
made many contacts which we hope will
prove of the highest value in furthering the
object of our Mission, namely that the two
great and ancient nations of the East—India
and Iran—which have sprung from a
common stock, and have a common cultural
heritage, should renew and revitalize their
centuries-old ties and, as in the past, make
yet another lasting contribution to civili
zation and humanity after the war.
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