Mr Nicholas met Quaid-e-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah on 18 December 1943. He wrote: The most important man in asia is sixty-seven, tall, thin, and elegant, with a monocole on a grey silk cord, and a stiff white collar which he wears in the hottest weather. He suggests a gentleman of Spain, a diplomat of the old school; one used to see his like sitting in the window of the St. James Club, sipping Contrexville while he read Le Temps, which he propped against a Queen Anne toast-rack stacked with toast Melba.
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