Latest survey see in KrasaM., Traditional Contacts Between India and Czechoslovakia. India and Czechoslovakia in the Cause of Peace and Prosperity (Ed.) RaoB. K., (New Delhi 1965), pp. 24–311.
2.
NehruJ., Climpses of World History (London 1949), p. V. Introduction by V.K. Krishna Menon.
3.
Nehru's letter to V. Lesny of 22 November 1935, ACSAV (Archives of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences), Prague, Correspondence of Academician V. Lesny.
4.
A Bunch of Old Letters. Written Mostly to Jawaharlal Nehru and Some Written by Him (Bombay 1958), p. 159.
5.
Letter of 29 November 1935, ACSAV.
6.
Letter of 9 March 1936, ACSAV.
7.
Letter of 1 April 1936, ACSAV.
8.
NehruJ., An Autobiography, (London 1953), pp. 604–605;. A Bunch of Old Letters, p. 277.
9.
Nehru's Letters to His Sister (London 1963), pp. 56–59.
10.
AMZV (Archives of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Prague, III/138–94.821.
11.
AMZV, III/861–88.899, 117.637, etc.
12.
Nehru's Letters to His Sister, p. 57; A Bunch of Old Letters, p. 291.
13.
NehruJ., China, Spain and the War (Allahabad 1940); F. Moraes, Jawaharlal Nehru. A Biography, (New York 1956) and Nehru's Autobiography contain so far most comprehensive description of Nehru's visit to Spain. The recently published recollections of V.K. Krishna Menon “Jawaharlal Nehru: The Sense of Occasion”, Link, New Delhi, 7/14, pp. 14–15 on his joint sojourn with J. Nehru bring new interesting details but contain also some errors. Cf. J. Nehru, The Unity of India. Collected Writings 1973–1940 (London 1948), p. 114.
14.
China Spain and the War, p. 81.
15.
An Autobiography, p. 605; Narodni Politika (Daily), Prague, 10 August 1938.
16.
MoraesF., op. cit., p. 272.
17.
WoodwardE. L.ButlerR. (Ed.), Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919–1939, Third Series: Vol. I, London 1949, No. 425. Cf. also Newton's telegraphic reply of 21 June which says: “With regard to the personality of mediator I think it would be better to avoid choosing anyone whose experience is limited to India or Colonial Empire since, however foolishly, the connection might be considered derogatory by both sides …” Ibid., No. 431.
18.
Manchester Guardian (Manchester), 8 September 1938, cit. in D. Norman (Ed.), Nehru, The First Sixty Years (London 1965) 2 Vol. I, pp. 580–582.
19.
China, Spain and the War, p. 136.
20.
NehruJ., Nationalism and the Mass Struggle in India. Labour Monthly, London, 20/8, pp. 476–482.
21.
The Unity of India, pp. 273–274; I. Singh, “Nehru in London: Some Flashbacks”, Link, 7/14, p. 50.
22.
NehruJ., Where Are We? (Allahabad 1939), pp. 56–57.
23.
Rude Pravo, (Prague), 23 July 1938.
24.
Rude Pravo, 26 July 1938.
25.
NormanD., op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 573–574. The proceedings of the Paris Conference as well as Nehru's participation in it was commented by a part of Czechoslovak daily press: Rude Pravo, 21 23, 24, 26 and 27 July 1938, Ceske Slovo (Prague), 22 July 1938, etc.
26.
“Rozmluva s vudcem Indie, J. Nehru. Vudce 350 milionu prijizdi do Ceskoslovenska” (A Talk With the Leader of India, J. Nehru. The Leader of 350 Million Comes to Czechoslovakia). Rude Pravo, 31 July 1938.
27.
Lidove Noviny Daily (Prague), 29 July 1938.
28.
NehruJ., The Discovery of India (London 1951), p. 4.
29.
NormanD., op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 563–564. I am indebted to Professor N. R. Kamath from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay for the information that after his visit to Czechoslovakia on his return journey from Budapest to Western Europe Nehru stayed about one day in Vienna then occupied by the Nazis. It was approximately on 25 August and he lived there in the hotel Ile-de-France. Likewise there he met only a group of Indian students and spoke to them on the situation.
30.
Nehru's letter to V. Lesny of 28 July, ACSAV.
31.
The Unity of India, p. 114.
32.
AMZV, III/138–94.821.
33.
Journalist A C. N. Nambiar, then residing in Prague, who accompanied Nehru, recalls interesting episodes from Nehru's stay in Prague and his journeys to Zlin and Bratislava in his article “With Nehru in Czechoslovakia”, Hindustan Standard (New Delhi), 14 November 1964. Nehru's visit to Zlin was briefly reported in the daily Pravo Lidu (Prague), 17 August 1938; his meetings with representatives of the German Social Democratic Party are mentioned in A Bunch of Old Letters, pp. 448–453; cf. also AMZV. III/138–94.821.
34.
Lidove Noviny, 18 August 1938; the interview was published in an abridged version by Rude Pravo, 19 August 1938.
35.
The only exception was the Prague daily paper of right-wing Agrarian Party Venkow which the next day after the publication of the interview with Nehru in Lidove Noviny, 19 August 1938, made a sharp attack on the interviewing editor Hubert Ripka, for having received “the Indian opposition to the British Government” the very day when the President of the Republic had talks with Lord Runciman and that he emphasized common sympathies for the Spanish Republic and China.
36.
Prager Tagblatt (Prague), 13 August 1938. An extract from this interview was published the same day in the evening issue of Pravo Lidu under the headline: “Pandit Nehru Declares: India Will Never Help Fascism.”.
37.
For Peace and Plenty. Report of the Fifteenth Congress of the C.P.G.B, London s. d., pp. 19–20.
38.
NehruJ., “Crisis in Europe”, National Herald (Lucknow), 26 September 1938.
39.
NehruJ., “The Great Betrayal”. National Herald, 1 October 1938.
40.
NehruJ., “On the Brink”. National Herald, 5 October 1938.
41.
Ibid., Editor's comment.
42.
MoraesF., op. cit., p. 273.
43.
AKPR (Archives of the Office of the Republic), Prague, D 9.800/1588/38.
44.
China, Spain and the War, pp. 103–111; cf. also The Unity of India, pp. 288–293.
45.
NehruJ., “The Choice Before US”, National Herald, 6 October 1938.
46.
NehruJ., “Peace and After: World Made Safe for Fascism”, National Herald, 12 October, 1938“ The New Europe. Fate of the World in the Balance”, National Herald, 18 October 1938 and The Hoax. National Herald, 25 October 1938.
47.
“In 1938, I went to Europe with the full intention of visiting America also. The Czechoslovak crisis and other developments prevented this.” (Letter by J. Nehru of 25 September 1940 in the Maharashtra State Collection, Freedom History Office, Bombay, File No, 135).
