It was a period of great turmoil following the outbreak of the Second World War and the preceding Great Depression.
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The speeches that he made in the Council of States on the occasion were praised time and again by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan who was the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha at that time.
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When the state was harrowing under the effects of the Great Depression of the 1930s, yet another great convulsion engulfed the land from end to end.
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The final effort of Mathai towards the formation of Kerala State was when he was a sitting member of the Council of States (the forerunner of the present Rajya Sabha) from 1952–54.