KOREA PEACE CONFERENCE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27148, 18 September 1953, Page 9

KOREA PEACE CONFERENCE

Nehru Criticises U.S. Attitude < NZ - Press Association-Copyright) (Rec 9 p.m.) NEW DELHI, September 17. t f r,me Minister, Mr Nehru, said today . , United States opposition to India’s participation of Asia ” rean P ° ltlca conference had “flouted the will “Some Powers have not realised that the countries of W^ k ’ not Propose to be ignored, by-passed or sat on, he said. [America opposed India’s participation in the Korean conference during the recent debate in the United Nations on the setting up of the conference. Before the vote was taken India voluntarily withdrew her name from consideration as a member]. Mr Nehru speaking in the house of the People (the Lower House) said that the admission of Communist China was the basic issue bedevilling the United Nations. China was a founder member—the only question was who represented China. It was completely unreal to suggest that the Formosa Government could speak for China. Mr Nehru expressed, for the first time, doubts about the possibility of a peaceful settlement in the world. “ We live in a precarious state between hope and fear,” he said. “On the one hand, there is the atom bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and now even talk of the cobalt bomb. At the same time there is the prospect of an infinitely better life fhan ever before. The-choice is between these two.”