League and without whose knowledge and permission
nothing regarding Pakistan could be done. Therefore it
was that Gandhiji thought that if Jinnahsaheb was be-
hind the Junagadh accession, it was a happy augury.
VISIT TO PANIPAT
What, however, he wanted to tell the audience
was about his visit to Panipat. Maulana Abul Kalam
Azad was with him. The Rajkumari was also to be
with him, but she was at the Government House and
he could not afford to wait beyond 10-30 a.m. by his
watch. He was glad that he went to Panipat. He saw
the Muslim patients in the hospital. Some of them had
suffered ghastly wounds but they were receiving all
the attention possible because the Rajkumari had sent
four doctors, nurses and medical accessories. They
then met the leader of the Muslims, the local Hindus
and the representatives of the refugees who were re-
ported to be over 20,000, They were told that more
were coming in daily to the dismay of the Deputy
Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police, both
of whom, he was glad to report to the audience, were
highly talked of by the Hindus as well as Muslims,
not to mention the refugees. They were also able to
see the refugees, who were assembled near the Muni-
cipal House. He was glad to find that in spite of the
terrible hardships the refugees had to go through in
Pakistan and also in Panipat, where there was no settled
life — some of them had to live on the station platform
and many absolutely in the open without adequate
covering — he did not.see any irritation in them and
they were glad that we had gone there. It seemed to
him cruel that the refugees were dumped on in Panipat
without any previous notice to the Deputy Commissioner
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