AA World Wide

INDIA'S MAGIC CARPET. In February 1956, General Service Headquarters "set the loom" in New Delhi, India, by answering the inquiries of an English housewife and an Indian national, both of whom had been informed of AA by an Indian psychiatrist, who in turn had heard of the AA recovery program from Dr. Francis Braceland, psychiatrist-in-chief at the Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut. Ten months later, Charlie M. from Montreal, Canada wrote GSH for the names of AA contacts in Southeast Asia, where he was being transferred for two years. On January 28, 1957, Charlie writes:"--it took me a week to locate your correspondents, Sylvia and Subatti. When I did, I found them close friends who were toying with the idea of doing something about their drinking, but they just hadn't been able to make a start. They have been dry a week now. We are going to run an ad--."One month later Charlie again writes: "We were hopefully expecting some inquiries. Well, we got them! Seven replies to the first ad and twenty-three to the second, from all over India!