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>From his "Witness to an Era", 1973.
Jinnah had set up practise befre the Privy Council; he took chambers in
King's Bench Walk and bought a house in Hampstead. There was a spruce,
burnished quality in his appearance, ---- i had heard tales of his rudeness,
to me over fifteen years he was never anything but considerate, often kind.
At the time i was president of the Indian Students Association in
London,---- there were afternoons when i spent an hour or two with him.
One evening, over dinner at Shaffis' on Gerrard St., i heard Sir Mohammed
Iqbal speak: it was during a Round Table Conference, and he was a Muslim
Delegate from India. He advocated the partitioning of India, and mentioned
the word Pakistan. It was the first time i had heard it.
I told Jinnah about it the next day: amused, he threw his head back, "my
dear boy", he chuckled, "don't you know Iqbal isn't a politician ? He's a
poet. Poet's are dreamers."
(A Bombay native, Jinnah later gifted his stately home on Malabar Hill to
his old country, India leases it to Britain, and it serves as the High
Commissioner's residence.)
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