In order to exploit the mineral wealth of India, we naturally need technical help and capital. Unfortunately, there is an impression in responsible circles here that such help can come either from the United States or Britain. Generally these circles rule out Britain because they think that Britain is down and out and has not much to teach us. They look to the U.S. and because they own the means of production of openion and use them for propagating their views, and the common citizen, without going into the pros and cons of such a proposition, believes what he is told. We must remember that there are small nations who are in a position to render us technical assistance in no way inferior to that which the two great industrial nations can give us. Sweden, Switezerland and Czechoslovakia may be cited as illustrations in point. these countries have made strides which are a matter of pride and great national assest to those countries. The Swedes are master ship builders. All Europe and America admit their great superiority in this industry. To build ships and weapons of coastal defence, let us import technical experts from sweden, a neutral country as yet not tried to any power group, Sweden has also made great strides in consumers' co-operatives. Every visitor to the Scandinavian countries is impressed with their remarkable achievement in this field. The Swiss make excellent engineers for transport and electrical good industries. The first longest tunnel in the world was given by them; they have been pioneers in many other fields too, They provided the bulk of technical assistance in the construction of the Berlin-Baghbad railway. They are also a leading nation in the exploitation of water resources for hydro-electricity.