He aroused a whole nation to prepare them to face the world. Wonderful [Amazing]! Hitler is a perfect medium and actor who is playing his role splendidly in the world drama.
Stalin is also a [good] medium: shrewd, clever and very bold. What he did and achieved, no one else could have: getting the entire nation united as one, to face the common foe, in spite of internal squabbles and differences. I've said before, Russia is always the deciding factor.
Churchill is a clever and shrewd politician. He is the spirit of Britain, who, but for him, would have failed. How cleverly he handled the delicate situation about India. He got Parliament's vote of confidence, formed a new cabinet, brought in Cripps and cleverly shirked the entire Indian problem on to [Cripps'] head and responsibility.
Roosevelt is good, sincere and capable. He came to India and stayed in the same houseboat in Kashmir that I occupied in 1933. The owner himself told Norina and the Westerners this.1 Good at heart, he wants to help and does, but he has to face great odds in his country too.
All these great leaders, who play their part in this world drama, will go; but even if they won't live to see the good results of all this destruction and devastation, they have played their roles well to bring about a new era of peace on Earth, and hence are blessed.
Baba concluded by stating: "All are mine — you as well as they."
Later that same day, 12 March, accompanied by Kaka, Gustadji and Baidul, Baba went to Gorakhpur in search of masts, visiting many places along the way. His most significant contact in Gorakhpur was a high mast of the sixth plane called Chini Shah.
Once during the ten-day tour, Baba stopped in Sitapur. Although it was not on their itinerary and no mast was found, it became evident to the mandali why Baba had come to Sitapur when they happened upon a helpless family camping under a tree near the railway station.
Baba told the mandali to make inquiries about them. The family consisted of three children, their father and mother. The mother was so gravely ill she could not move. Local inquiries revealed that one of their children had died the previous day. They had no money whatsoever. The illness of the woman and the recent death of the child had left the father totally despondent.
Footnotes
- 1.The houseboat owner was apparently mistaken. It was Franklin Roosevelt's father-in-law, Elliott Roosevelt, who visited Kashmir, in 1881.