GRAVE AND URGENT PROBLEM
I LONDON, Oct. 30. | _ An assurance "without reservation" ihat British offlcers would not be employed in combatant capacities on either side in the Kashmir district was given by the , British Commonwealth Relatioris Minister, Mr. P. J. Noel-Baker, in answer to a question by Mr. Winsic'xi Churchill in the House of Comniuiis. He said it was hoped ihat the conference between the Pnme Ministers and GovernorGenerals of India and Pakistan, which had been postponed through the illness of the Prime Minister of ] India, Pandit Nehru, would be held ' in Lahore on November 1. There were about 325 British nationals in Kashmir when the crouble began, continued Mr. NoelBaker. Two hundred of them had elected to leave. and aircraft had been sent yesterday to evacute ; them. The conference will have grave and urgent problems to solve, and it is only by frank cohsultations at I me highest level that a solution | can be found.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1947, Page 5
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