We
have already wired to His Excellency Lord Mountbatten, Mahatmaji, Prime and Deputy Prime
Ministers of India, Hon'ble Abul Kalarn Azad and the Governor-General and Prime Minister
of Pakistan. I hope you will kindly respond to this
request.
Yours sincerely,
Sd/S.N.bhutto,
Dewan, Junagadh."
While Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and myself were sitting in
his house at night in Delhi, a telephone message was received from Mr. Buch that the Dewan
of the Nawab had invited the Indian Army into Junagadh. When be finished the telephone
conversation, his face was beaming. He told me what the message was and smiled. My
first thought, I expressed in these words: "So it is JAYA SOMANATHA".
Sardar smiled. |