PEKING’S VIEW OF TREATY

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 9

PEKING’S VIEW OF TREATY

INDIAN ATTITUDE WELCOMED

TOKYO, August 29. The Peking radio said to-night that the Chinese and all Asian people welcomed the refusal of India and Burma to attend the San Francisco peace treaty conference. Quoting from leading articles in the Peking "People’s Daily,” the radio said that the nations opposed to the treaty could take either of two attitudes. These were to participate in the conference and put forward and fight for their own proposals concerning the treaty, or to refuse to sign and therefore refuse to attend the conference. Citing the Soviet Union as the country taking the former stand and India and Burma as countries taking the latter stand, the radio said that the Chinese people welcomed both these attitudes.

With Communist China excluded from the treaty, the Soviet Union opposing it, and India refusing to sign it, the three countries with the largest population in the world—exceeding I.ooo.ooo.ooo—stood opposed to the draft treaty.