Ambassador not in favour
fN.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) BANGKOK, February 24. Mr William Saxbe. the new American Ambassador to India, said today that he tried in vain to persuade the State Department against lifting the United States embargo on arms to Pakistan. "I made my views clear to the Secretary of State and everybody else concerned, but I wasn’t persuasive,” Mr Saxbe said in an interview during a stop-over that has been prolonged by State Department orders. The lifting of the embargo is expected to be announced this week. The Indian Foreign Minister (Mr Y. B. Chavan) said last week that it would have serious repercussions on the peace and stability of the Indian sub-continent. Mr Saxbe and his wife were to arrive in New Delhi last Saturday, but the State Department ordered him to delay. Apparently the department hoped that if a few days intervened between its announcement and his arrival, he might not be a target for hostile demonstrations.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33777, 25 February 1975, Page 17
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