The combined talent of six despairing Boston newspaper men, aided by a CRIMSON reporter, failed to derail the philosophical train of Jiddu Krishnamurti's thought and elicit from him much specific comment on the troubled land of his birth. In his suite at the Ritz-Carlton the well-known spiritual teacher and Y. Prasad, his Indian aide, tallsed freely and in perfect English of the characteristics of the ideal man of the future, but felt that there was not sufficient evidence at hand on which to base a comment on the Russian religious situation, and expressed more concern for the spiritual than for the political well-being of India.

"Sir," said Krishnamurti in Johnsonian style, "you know that the roots are the most important part of a tree. I am most interested in seeing that the roots of India's life are sound, in tending to the spiritual well-being of the people."

Asked if he would join the campaign of, intensive civil disobedience which the nationalist Mahatma Gandhi is now threatening to launch against the viceroy in India, Krishnamurti replied. "I would take no part in politics. I do not think of myself as a citizen of any country." He did, however, state that he believes India fit for self-rule, assuming she is safe from foreign invasion.

Asked if the mainspring of life, the desire to eat and the desire to mate would not keep man in an unbalanced state, Krishnamurti replied. "No; the possibility of begetting children will remain, but not the necessity. Men will not fall in love; they will be love itself."