EAST-WEST PACT

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28490, 21 January 1958, Page 11

EAST-WEST PACT

Italy Backs Plan Of Britain

ROME. January 19. The Italian Prime Minister <Mr Adone Zoli) has told the Soviet Prime Minister (Marshal Bulganin) that his Government agrees with Britain's proposal for a nonaggression pact between East and West.

Mr Zoli, in a reply to Marshal Bulganin's letter—which is one of a series to the West—said it was necessary to leave no stone unturned to improve the present international situation.

He said: “Even a partial agreement could prove useful."

Indian Policy India would not budge an inch from her international policy of non-alignment and her internal policy of socialism under any threat or pressure from any quarter, the Indian Prime Minister (Mr Nehru) said at Gauhati today.

Mr Nehru was speaking on a resolution on the economic situation at the annual session of the ruling Congress Party. The United States would reject recent top-level Soviet proposals for a “denuclearised sone" in Central Europe. Government officials said at Washington today. They said the plan would leave American troops in Germany equipped with only second das* weapons to defend themselves if Russia should strike against Western Europe.