'How do you get these results?' said Mossadegh. 'I hope you won't have the same difficulty with me.'

Buchman told him one more story - and ended up, 'That's all I do. You see, I do simple things, but that is what the world needs.'20

It may be worthwhile, in attempting to understand Buchman, to transcribe more fully here some of the thoughts that he called Baynard-Smith to write down during the nights in India, and try to see what they consisted of.

During one of the first nights in Bombay, Buchman dictated, 'You will be guided beyond your wildest dreams. God has a unique part for you and your work in India. The tops of a thousand hills are yours. India politically will have a large place in the future.'

Shortly before going to Delhi, he dictated, 'I will lead you forth in Delhi as I led you years ago, and I will work through you mightily. My will and way, not yours. Men will know it is the will of God and not any work. I am going to speak to you. Make no moves with Nehru. He will come to you. Alone in the mountains, away from others, I will give you the mighty secret that will win India back to her rightful place. Be alert, sympathetic, constant. Greater days are yours.'

On another occasion, later on: 'You are needed in India. You can create an organism here which will decide the future of the world. Keep close to Delhi and Nehru...He will commit his strong right arm. He will come your way...He will select his own plan. The days in Hyderabad will be monumental. Stay in the background but you will be in the foreground, too. Stay in this country for the present. Strifes and rumours of wars. Your team has the skill to meet the situation…Build up constructive personalities who can handle the situation everywhere…Lucknow will help. The Munshis will be great assets…You will not go to Burma now. No Japan this year. It will resound to Japan from Delhi.’

On the morning of his interview with President Prasad he dictated, 'The President is as worried as anybody that Gandhiji's philosophy will not be carried out and will grasp eagerly at what we can give.'

What are we to think of such thoughts, written down in the night some decades ago?

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