India - the Mother

November 20, 1965

(On Mother's table lies a magazine showing a large photo of President Kennedy with folded hands. This is the second anniversary of his death, on November 22, 1963.)

Was he a religious man?

He was Catholic, I think.

Oh, Catholic!

Ah, that's why he died.... You know he was truly in favour of freedom, and not only freedom but union. And he was receptive. You know how he worked for the Blacks there (moreover, that's the external cause of his death). But he was the one I counted on, not without reason, as he had shown signs of assent to a union with Russia to establish peace on earth. Talks had already started and they had seized the opportunity of China's aggression against India. Naturally, that wasn't quite to the extremists' liking, and in the atmosphere, the force which for centuries has acted behind the Catholic religion wasn't at all in favour of that plan; so things "worked out" well and they killed him. The other one in Russia who had responded, Khrushchev, didn't die because he left in time!

Mother's Agenda: November 20, 1965