NO CHANGE OF HEART IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1948, Page 6

NO CHANGE OF HEART IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN

LONDON, August 16

“Unfortunately there is no special reason to think that the freedom anniversary statements and ceremonies at the week-end indicate any change of heart in either India or Pakistan, or that the cease-lire proposal for Kashmir will meet with anything but

a much-qualified reception on both sides,” says the Delhi correspondent of The 'fimes. “Both parties are already laying down such conditions to the United Nations Commission’s cease-fire proposal as will vitiate any chance of its successful applications.” The correspondent adds: “The anniversary ceremonies were carried out in a mood not so much of exuberant celebration as of chastened introspection. Pandit Nehru’s and Mr Rajagopalachari’s peaceful protestations were not matched by Mr Jinnah’s reference to -economic manoeuvres to ruin Pakistan,’ or Liaqat Ali Khan’s comment on ‘the enemy's diabolical move to throttle Pakistan at its inception.’ ” The New Delhi correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that there was no repetition of the rejoicing that marked India's independence on August 15 last year, when a Royal salute of 31 guns greeted the hoisting of India’s flag.