OBJECTIONS BY INDIA

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26516, 3 September 1951, Page 7

OBJECTIONS BY INDIA

®ec. 10 p.m.) NEW DELHI. September 1. A spokesman for the Indian Government to-day denied British and American suggestions that, in oppos!nS the Japanese Peace Treaty, India *as backing the Soviet stand on the treaty. “It is common knowledge that Russia is against Japanese rearmament, tut India has never opposed Japan s rearming herself in the interests of ner own security," the spokesman said. “The Indian objections to the treaty **e not dictated by political considerf. . s ' hut are primarily against its Jfrntorial and military provisions, spokesman continued. “The main JPPsideration before India is whether “'e treaty is a fair, just document, the seeds of future conflict. /The Indian Government's conb’Usion is that a disciplined and initialised Japan will rise again and disabilities imposed by the PRICES OF DANISH BACON

COPENHAGEN, August 31. Denmark to-day accepted Britain S ?“ er of a price increase of 124 per for her bacon. The new prices—ffective from Monday until Septeinz? 30 next year—will be £l3 2s 5d ??.cwt for the first 110,000 tons, and consi S nrnen^s beyond that

thI h t f J )aC * t ? ormall y Puts on record tha signatories' sense of unity “so ,mH. no *w Po^, ntl ? l aggressor could be under the illusion that any of them stands alone in the Pacific area." It commits the three partners to a policy of settling international disputes by peaceful means, of developmg jointly and separately their power to resist attack, and of consulting together m the event of any threat of aggression.

In the event of an armed attack upon any of the parties, they undertake “to meet the common danger in accordance with their constitutional processes.”

“Golden Portal to Peace” Sir Carl Berendsen said that the pact might itself open a golden portal to the peace, prosperity, and happiness of the Pacific, and of the future that lay before them. He emphasised that the pact was solely a measure of self-protection, and was a threat to no country. New Zealand was not a country which asked for what she was 'not prepared to give, “We are not one of those who demand help which we are not prepared to accord,” continued Sir Carl

Berendsen. “We are not one of those who are content to leave to others burdens which we should ourselves assume. In our short history we have always been ready to give what we have been reacy to ask. “Man for man, we have played and are playing our full part—sometimes, in legitimate pride, we think more than our full partr-in those great struggles of our time which have called for the co-operation of all rightthinking peoples." The pact signed that day. he said, was of co-operation, a joint offer and an assurance of aid, real and immediate, should aid be needed by any of the partners. Sir Carl Berendsen said the treaty rested upon a solid basis of common interests and ideals, upon the regard and affection of the peoples of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, upon a common desire for peace and a common determination to resist aggression. The treaty was, he said, not isolationist in its nature. “We in New Zealand have no reason to fear any suggestion, malevolent or ignorant, of selfish or isolationist intentions,” Sir Carl .Berendsen continued. “Our history—the history of two world wars and New Zealand’s armed and active participation all over the world in those causes which we have believed to be just—is the answer. “We believe—and our acts and our policies have implemented that belief —that a true democracy must be willing to serve wherever democracy needs to be defended. Accordingly, this treaty does not restrict itself to the parties alone. It contemplates close and constant consultations with others of like interests or in like P U signing of the treaty, Sir Carl Berendsen said, created a new tradition, a new memory of ‘something which, if God pleases, we will find to be good, and prove to be enduring.”

Mr Acheson’s Speech

Mr Acheson said the security pact with Australia and New Zealand put into words strong ties and purposes already in existence. Mr Acheson continued: The treaty which we are signing to-day is a statement of the intense effort and devotion with which the free peoples of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States maintain their constant guard for freedom. * “It affirms the well-established principle that the security of an individual nation is inevitably bound to the security of its partners in the free world —that our common desire for peace is coupled with a strong resolve to resist aggression. The treaty formally binds our peoples together in new ties of friendship and co-operaXion. Mr Acheson said the.ties with the two Dominions were actually not n£w They had been created over a W Period. “Only this, treaty-tte tripartite security pact—is new, he continued. “It only puts into words strong ties and purposes already in is in complete conformity with the aims and principles of the Charter of the United Togetter with the United States-Philip-pines Mutual Defence Treaty■and the nost-treaty arrangements between tne United States and Japan, we hope to make this pact the basis for peace m thp Pacific-. Toward the aay wnen ttlt p£ce XriU be assured, all our hopes are turned.’ n “Peoples Share Common Destiny Mr Spender said: “This da y, w ®X dare to the world that our tnree neon’es share a common destiny. The gHfcttSWW creasingly important area of the Pa “We are saddened by the great disharmony which more and more is d vidfna the world into two armed cnmos & We recognise only too well inherent in that division. Wo wiU constantly labour to reduce

the unhappy tension which to-day plagues mankind. “This treaty is an instrument not of offence, but of defence. It is a pact for peace.” Mr Spender said Australia would never seek to interfere in the affairs of other nations, and was equally determined that others should not interfere in her affairs. “This treaty, directed to regional security in the Pacific, fashioned within the framework of the Charter of the United Nations, and dedicated to its high and noble purposes, takes the first step taward what we hope will prove to be an ever-widening system of peace and security in this vital area,” Mr Spender concluded.