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Seven hundred capitalists is a lot of capitalists to see at once. They are members of the blue-serge and gray-flannel and pin-stripe international, just like the people in the corridors of the U.N. or in any professional, technical or administrative convention the world over, including the other side of the Iron Curtain. The so-called free world seems to be divided pretty clearly into three groups. First are the United States of America, Canada and Australia, the other predominantly white or white-governed Dominions, Latin America and, to a much lesser degree, Great Britain itself.

The article presents information on the independence of India. In many ways it has been a memorable fortnight, crowded with big events-the opening of the Constituent Assembly in New Delhi, first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's magnificent speech outlining its objectives, and the parliamentary debate on India in London. Nehru returned from his dramatic flight to London disappointed but not embittered. America, Australia, and China sent messages of good-will which the chairman read out on the opening day, but none came from Great Britain.