Himalayan Times (1951)

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All-India Radio which has a valu-
able collection of Mahatma Gandhi's
post-prayer meeting addresses proposes
to set up a plant for large-scale manu
facture of gramophone records for public
sale

The imported record pressing plant
will be installed in New Delhi shortly.

All-India Radio's collections of
caltouse nitrate discs are over tnree
years old Though the best possible care
is being taken of these records it wis
feared that "unless the voice is transfer
red to new pressed discs ol a more
permanent material this unique treasure
will be lost to posterity . Three copies
of each disc are being prepared for per-
manent preservation

The recordings of Mahatma Gandhi's
voice on discs can be played for a total
duration of 51 hours and 22 minutes.
This collection includes Mthatma's post-
p'ayer addresses at Hhanpi Colony and
Hirla House in New Delhi right up to
the last address before his assassination
on January 30. 1948.

Issued (or Public Sale

A record manufacturing company
in India has already prepared and issued
for public sale an album of six discs
containing cxlracls from A. I R.'s recor-
dings of- Mahatma Gandhi's post-prayer
addresses.

A nine-minute disc of Mahatma
Gandhi s eighteen-minute English speech
delivered at the Asian Relations Confe-
lence held in New Delhi four years ago
was issued through the firm by the AJ.lt.
for sale in India and abroad

Gandhi Jayanti on Oct. 2

All India Radio will celebrate 'Gan
dhi Jayanti" on October 2 by broad-

WHITE RUSSIANS

Shri Satish Chandra, Parliamentary
Secretary to the Prime Minister, said
in parliament on 26th that the
Government of India did not in any
way propose to extend the three-month
period of temporary visas granted to a
number of White Russians who left their
homes and came to India via Tibet
owing to political changes in Sinkiang.

Shri Satish Chandra informed Shri
A. M. Rathnaswamy in Parliament that
these White Russians had been granted
visas to stay in India for three months
on the distinct understanding that the
Government of India undertook no res-
ponsibility to acommodate or maintain
th-m. They were expected to leave
Ird a within that period, and were not
clven asylum No representation had
been received against them from the
i hinese Government so far.

The White Russian cam" to Sin-
king after the Russian revolution and
before the Communist advance on Sin-
kiang they came to Tibet hnd than
mm e i into India.

Asked whether political asylum was
propose to be given to them the Prime
Minister said that it was the normal
practice of the Government of India to
afford asylum in any way for political
activities against any other friendly coun
try According to the practice, even
though they might not be welcome, the
Government of India could not refuse
asylum to some of them.

casting special programmes from all
stations in the country.

A thirty-minute programme giving
extracts from Mahatma Gandhi a post-
praver addresses on various n uts of
Gandhism will be broadcatt, from Bom-
bay, Delhi anil Caloutta at ")-3H p. m
that day.