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Mrs. Gandhi had expected to see us, and I was told that if we
could remain or return on the 18th, we could have a meeting with
her. However my own commitments did not allow, and so we were
invited to return in December.
At Singapore, we visited a number of top officials. The Prime
Minister was in Europe, but while he was away the second in command
was the Minister of Education. He already had a copy of our
booklet "This is AMBASSADOR COLLEGE," and I presented him with a
copy of The ENVOY.
He surprised me by saying he wanted to send his 19-year-old
daughter to Ambassador College at Pasadena. I asked if I might
interview the girl. He had her in his office within ten minutes.
Although she had already missed two weeks of this year's school
year, we decided at best to send her on to Pasadena immediately.
We also have the son of a member of the Japanese Diet (their
"congress") enrolled this year.
At Singapore I was invited to be the speaker at a Rotary Club
luncheon. I was followed by a very brief speech by a prominent
local member, head of one of the colleges. I was surprised to hear
him say he was a subscriber to The PLAIN TRUTH, praising it highly,
telling the local Rotarians they should all become subscribers. I
am also writing an article for The PLAIN TRUTH about Singapore.
We have just visited our offices in Sydney and our printing
plant there, and we also flew over to New Zealand to see our
office, and staff, there. While in Sydney Mr. McNair, Mr. Rader,
and Mr. C. Wayne Cole, one of our Vice Presidents in charge of all
operations in the Far East and Australasia, and I were luncheon
guests of the Reader's Digest at their own large office building in
Sydney. Their four top officials for this area hosted the
luncheon.
Then, through their good offices, we were able to host a
reception in a private room in our hotel last evening. Present
were about 30 executives of radio and T.V. stations, newspapers and
magazines. One local newspaper had given us a rather bad image in
Australia, and at this reception I was able to speak to all these
executives for about 25 minutes, completely correcting all the
misconceptions that had been given out by an uninformed hostile
newspaper. Handling things in this manner is very vital to this
great worldwide Work. Last evening's reception was of untold value
to the Work.
Just now we are flying back to Singapore. I was to have had
a conference with the President of Indonesia, but he was in Europe
when we were in Singapore. So arrangements were made to see him
tomorrow, at Djakarta, the capital of Indonesia. We preferred to
go back to the same hotel in Singapore where we were a week ago,
and just hop on over to Djakarta and back tomorrow -- it's a short
distance by our jet aircraft from Singapore.
Today is Wednesday. Friday I have a conference set up with
the President of the Philippines, at Manila. Then Saturday night
we plan to fly across to Hong Kong, where a meeting is arranged