The Reminiscences of Zafrulla Khan — Page 129
129 REMINISCENCES OF SIR MUHAMMAD ZAFRULLA KHAN put through and he said, "My name is White. You may not recall me, but during the war we travelled together from Accra to Miami. " I said, "Are you, by any chance, Murray White?" He answered, "It is astonishing that you should remember my first name. " I countered, "Isn't it more astonishing that you should remember my name? You could only have seen it in the papers. " He said, "Yes, I saw it in the papers that you were coming to Denver. " He told me he is married, and is retired from the Air Force; he had a crash, but that he is employed in the meteorological side. I had them to tea and we spent a delightful time together. From Natal we flew on to Georgetown in British Guyana, where we spent the night in another American military camp. The next day we flew from Georgetown to Miami, where we were met by the British Vice Consul, who told us he had reservations for us the next day and the following day, both by train and by air, to New York, whichever we preferred. My inclination was to stop the next day in Miami, which none of us had visited before - I had been to America, but had not been down to Florida - and then fly the following day to New York, but my two companions thought that it would be enough to have an afternoon and evening in Miami and that they would like to go on to New York next morning by train. So I fell in with their wishes. We stopped in New York for a few days. We were put up in the Waldorf Hotel. We went by train to Montreal and changed trains there and went on to Mont Tremblant, which I thought was an ideal place in which to hold a conference in the winter, because you could not do anything else except talk together. It was a skiing resort and the lodge and the cottages had been placed at the disposal of the Pacific Relations Institute for the conference. Among the people I met there was Phillip Jessup, who led the U. S. Delegation. He is now on the International Court of Justice, so that our friendship has extended over 20 years. Question : What was the conference about? What was its purpose ? Khan : The Conference, as its name implied, studied generally the relations between the U. S. and the countries of the Pacific region and more particularly the impact of American troops and civilians upon the countries which were represented at the conference, what problems it gave rise to, how it affected the attitude of those countries towards America, and what could be done to remedy any problems that might have arisen.