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152 (Jawahar Lal Nehru) کی پہلی جلد میں سفر یورپ کا تذکرہ کرتے ہوئے لکھتے ہیں۔"The turning-point in Jawaharlal's mental development was the invitation to help in organizing and to participate as the representative of the Indian National Congress in the International Congress against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism to be held at Brussels in February 1927۔The chief organizer of the conference was Willi Muenzenberg, who really invented the fellow-traveller۔The Soviet Union kept severely aloof and no one from that country attended the conference۔Though as Jawaharlal realized even at the time, the objectives of the conference were wholly in accordance with Soviet foreign policy and were intended to bring together the forces of anticolonialism and organized labour as against imperialism, especially British imperialism۔This did not frighten Jawaharlal and he suggested that a large delegation, including an economist and an expert on military matters, be sent from India by the Congress, but in fact he was the only delegate۔Clearly, at such a conference where the prime target was British imperialism's the official representative of the Indian Congress would be an important figure; and Jawaharlal was appointed one of the members of the Presidium۔He arrived at Brussels on 6 February, took part in all the informal meetings۔Presided over one of the formal sessions and played a leading role in the drafting of many of the resolutions۔'I am dead tired' he wrote from Brussels on the 16th, "after 8 or 9 days of the Congress here, I have not had a good night's sleep and hardly a decent meal since I