FOREIGN ARMIES MUST NOT OPERATE IN ASIA

Chronicle (Levin), 11 August 1947, Page 5

FOREIGN ARMIES MUST NOT OPERATE IN ASIA

Received Sundav, 0.50 p.m. NEW DELHI, August 10. ' ' Let me make it clear tliat we won 't tulerate foreigu armies operating in Asiatie countrie.s, " said Pamlit Nehrn in a press interview. "Tlie nxidoitation of lndia lias giveu soine foreign Powers an e::eusc to dominate nations in Asia and somc sinall countries were kept under British control beeause they liappened to be on tlie way from England to lndia. "The Duteh liad no right to keep troops in Tndonesia. ITolland, who failed to pro'.ecl herself only a few years ago, liad no right to reinstate herself as tui iinperiaiistic nation." Paiulit Neliru added: "lndia is suro to play a signitieant role in internat ional politics. ' ' Habib Ibrahim Raliimtoola has been appointcd lirst iligh Conimissioner in London for Pakistan. Two armed ]>oliceinen were killed and ojie policeman and five other people wounded in a sharp exehange of fire be1 ween Ihe police and armed group ot rioters who took upx positions in a vacant house in a northern suburb oi Calcutta. The police cordoned off the areti and dislodged the rioters. . They i'ound a do/.en bombs. The occupants of a private car in the Bowbazar dis trict whipped out a revolver and killed a poiiceman who challenged th'e veliicle. The Moslem Doininion of Pakistan will apply for U.N.O. membership lh rough the British Government whieh is expected to take up the matter almost immediately. The Hindu Doininion oi" lndia will support Pakistan 's candidature.