NEW PLAN ON FORMOSA

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27576, 5 February 1955, Page 7

NEW PLAN ON FORMOSA

‘Geneva Type’ Talks Suggested

(N-Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 4. Official Washington concentrated its attention today on the London conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers for signs of an alternative plan to stop the Formosa Strait vest-pocket war” in the wake of Communist China s refusal to discuss a cease fire in t d Lnite ° at,ons > a Reuter correspondent reported Government officials were closely following reports from V l6 Washington newspapers, that India’s Prune Mimster, Mr Nehru, was actively working on a proposal for a tormosa peace conference of interested nations, patterned ?" sul P mer 8 Geneva Conference which produced the Indo-Cmna truce. the results of the Geneva meeting, which Communist China attended, were regarded in Washington as less than favourable, there was an obvious coolness in the initial reaction of some officials to a proposed conference on Formosa. h was stated that no concrete positions could be taken ? - -i State Department had received and" studied the details of any Commonwealth suggestions for a peaceful solution of the China-Formosa problem, the correspondent said.