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- 153 came here۔' It was a strange medley of delegates - European Communists, trade unionists and pacifists, nationalists from Asia, Africa and Latin America, and secret service agents- with many delegates doubling the roles۔However, Jawaharlal could not be influenced by some of the men and women he met here Henri Barbusse, George Lansbury, Ellen Wilkinson, Fenner Brockway, Harry Pollitt, Reginald Bridgman, Edo Fimmen, Willi Muenzenburg, Ernst Toller, Mohammed Hatta and Roger Baldwin, apart from a large number of delegates from China, Africa, Mexico and Latin America and his fallow mind was receptive to Marxist and radical ideas۔- In his first statement to the press, Jawaharlal merely emphasized the common element in the struggles against imperialism in various parts of the world; the fabric of imperialism looked imposing and appeared to hold together, but any rent in it would automatically lead to its total destruction۔Indian nationalism was based on the most intense internationalism, just as the problem of Indian freedom was a world problem; as in the past, so in the future, other countries and peoples would be vitally affected by the conditions of India۔But his speech at the inaugural session of the conference was at a deeper level۔Jawaharlal pointed out that India was the prime example of imperialism۔She had been continuously exploited and terrorized by the British, and her workers and peasants had been systematically crushed۔'It does not require statistics, facts or figures to convince you that India in the course of the last