DOMINIONS' TALKS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22447, 30 September 1947, Page 3

DOMINIONS' TALKS

MEETINGJGRECAST : RIOTING_JN INDIA APPEAL

LONDON. Sept. 28. ,' , The British Cabinet may call a conference of the Dominions on India’s communal riots now that the situation is beyond control, says the Daily Express’ political correspondent. The talks will .probably begin within a month when the Dominions have studied Pakistan’s appeal, y- The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in Karachi says if is understood that the Pakistan Government will wait a few days before submitting suggestions oil the limitary aspects of its problems to the Dominions. . The earnest desire is that the Sikhs

will give way under diplomatic pressure apd the Indian Government will co-operate in the cause of communal peace. • ' , The. authorities in Karachi are acutely conscious that their appeal has set an ; embarrassing precedent in Commonwealth relations and have no desire to pursue their exceptional course of action any further than is necessary. New State of “Sikhistan”

Secret consultations this week-end between the Maharajah of Patiala, . ruler' of the leading Sikh States and mmebers of the Indian Cabinet may result in a separate Indian State of “Sikhistan”' under the leadership of the Maharajah and Sardar Baldev, the Indian Minister of Defence. This is reported by the Daily Telegraph's correspondent in New Delhi. He adds that the comparative lull in communal warfare continues, with, a relative quiet in New Delhi and the Punjab, but tensions is still high west of the United Provinces where the danger persists of the Hindu Mahasabha, the extreme communal element of Hinduism and the counterpart of the Moslem ’League, undermining the Government’s efforts to maintain peace. » Reuter’s correspondent in New Delhi says, that six people were killed in a disturbance in Sunzimani, a suburb of New Delhi. Troops are now patrolling the area. “Unusual and. Surprising” • Dr. Kripalani, the Congress Party president told the Associated Press correspondent in New Delhi that he considered Pakistan’s appeal to the Commonwealth unusual, surprising, and probably hiot intended seriously. .He said the real solution lay in Pakistan itself. Pakistan had created itself as : the homeland for Moslems. Resentment- against the Sikh and Hindu in ip or i ties of . Pakistan had been the immediate result. The only one way to retrieve the situation • was to base citizenship on territorial areas, and “forget the twonation ’ theory which began the. whole vicious circle of communal discord and bloody rioting.” ' India had been helping as best she could. . - Reuter’s correspondent in New Delhi quotes Dr. Zahid Russian, the Pakistan High Commissioner in India, as saying that Pakistan had completely ruled out the possibility of war, Pakistan'subscribed to the principles of the United Nations Charter. It felt that if communal trouble persisted it would menace the world. He imagined that Pakistan had made the appeal so that if ever "the matter took international shape or went, before the United Nations, Pakistan would have the Dominions’ support--1 -