The recent (December-January) all-India Seminar held at Madras, India (theme: "Catholic students and the modern transformation of the Universities of Asia") was attended by delegates from universities in Ceylon, Pakistan, India, Burma, Hong Kong, Malaya, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Iraq, Australia and New Zealand. Informative and vitally important discussions were held on this subject: important in view of the transitions taking place in Asia at the present time.

I found among the majority of students a very strong nationalism, a great pride for their own country which sometimes prevented them from admitting its faults. This nationalism is of course to be expected in countries which have achieved independence only in the comparatively recent past. The movement for freeing the Asian people from foreign dominance had provided a common bond for people of widely differing cultures, languages and religions. The fact of independence is still a very strong bond hut since the achievement of a unified independent state, the differences which were previously overshadowed have begun to emerge, and are creating serious problems.