NEW DELHI MEETING
NOT DESIGNED TO CREATE ASIAN BLOC INDIAN OFFICIAL’S ASSURANCE NZPA—Copyright LONDON, Jan. 13. Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, Secretarygeneral of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, emphasised in New Delhi to-day that the Asian conference on Indonesia was not designed to bring into being an, Asian bloc. He said the fact that Australia and New Zealand had been invited showed that the conference was not racial in character. He denied that India had taken the initiative because of any aspiration to leadership. Reuter’s Batavia correspondent reports that the heads or representatives of the Indonesian Federal States, meeting in camera in Batavia, have, according to unofficial sources, recommended that representatives of the former Republican territories should be associated with the setting up of the future Interim Federal Government. In response to a Dutch request, the Good Offices Committee will not be accompanied by a press officer or correspondents when they fly to Banka on Saturday to meet Dr Hatta and other Republican leaders. The committee will return to Batavia the same day, and report to the Security Council as soon as possible. Republican sources continue to report widespread guerrilla activity.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26980, 15 January 1949, Page 7
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