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chapter nine Fulfilment of Dream (A) S ir Shadi Lal had become Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court in 1919. He was a very shrewd and far-seeing person. Certain indications had convinced me that he was deter- mined to obstruct my career as far as it lay within his power to do so. As early as the spring of 1930, Sir Fazal-i-Husain told me that the Governor, Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency, had made every effort to persuade Sir Shadi Lal to recommend me for appoint- ment to a vacancy on the High Court Bench, but the Chief Justice would not agree. About the same time my brother, Asadullah Khan, who was studying for the Bar in England, wrote to me that Mr. Justice Harrison, one of the senior judges of the Lahore High Court on leave in England, had told him that Sir Shadi Lal would never rec- ommend me for appointment to the High Court Bench. Sir Shadi Lal was appointed a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the spring of 1934 and was to