MAO TSE-TUNG GIVES INDIA ASSURANCE OF PEACEFUL INTENTIONS
Lie mission a failure, French say
Paris, May 22. Informed French officials said today that the Secretary General of the United Na- tions, Trygve Lic, got little positive encouragement from the Kremlin for his proposal to call a truce in the cold war and starl a series of high- level conferences.
Naw Delhi, May 22.
The Chinese Communist loador, Mao Tse-tung, told India's Ambassador to: Poking, Sardar- K. M. Panikkar, that China had no aggressive in- tentions against anybody, least of all against India, according to authoritative reports reaching here,
Moo was reported to have made this statement in a half-hour meeting with Dr. Panikkar when the Indian Ambassador presented his creden- tials on Saturday.
Mao, according to these reports, talked of the pro-
blom which India and China inherited “as a result of Imperialist domination for centuries" and spoke with warmth of the necessity for peace for the new countries of Asia.
tries went ahead with Industrinit- sation they would not. be "truly independent".
The problems which India and he was reported to have said China faced were the FAMI that the basic problems of India namely, political Independence, and China were similar, and de- Mr. Lie conterred for 30 min-economic freedom and democracy,clared that unless the two coun- utes wilk the Prime Minister, George Biduult, today. Ofeinis said Mr. Lie hod failed to obtain Any promises from Marshal Josef Stalin to sit down with the heads of the Western nations. They said the Russian leaders with whom Mr. Lle had talked told
him thes
would think about his pro urged
Man emphasised the nge-long friendship between India and China, nuud said, "The people of Chinn have always thought of India as a country to which good Chinese go when they die.
"Even today that is the feeling The UN Secretory today
of the common people of China." M. Bidault to sit down with Mar- shal Stalin and other world lend- Man naked Dr. Panikkar to con- ers in an effort to settle the cold yey his personal greetings to war before it was too late. lle President Rajendra Prasad and made his appeal to the Premier the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit after his flying trip to Moscow | Nehru. for conversations with Stalin and other Soviet officials on the sune subject.
Tomorrow he will repeat' his arguments for a top-level cold War peace effort to the British Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, and possibly to the Prime Minis- ter, Clement Attlee.
On Wednesday, he will fly to the United States for similor con- ferences with President Truman
the Secretary of State, Dean Articson. Mr. Lle will report in all three Western capitals what Marshal Stalin said about his plon At for ending the cold war. He is
Force for peace
Earlier, presenting his cre- dentials, Dr. Panikkar said, "The two sister Republics of Asia (China and India), which between them contain over a third of the world's population, can through their co-operation become a great and Invincible force for peace."
In his 00-minute talk with Dr. Panikkar,
mainly related to agricultural and industrial mut- ters, Chou showed Interest in the systerns of tenure and holdings in different parts of India, the settle= ment of refugees, irrigation schemes, and especially in India's multi-purpose river valley pro- Jects.-Reuter.
Red China base of operations
Detroit, Michigan, May 22. The Chinese Ambassador, Wellington Koo, in a
Man, replying, had said, "The formal establishment of diplo- matle relations between China Dr. and India will not only further speech before the Economic develop and
consolidate the Club said today there can be
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Errors of judgment by pilot caused plane
crash
The Hague, May 22,
Two errors of judgment by the pilot caused the crash of the Dutch Constello- tion aircraft at Bombay on July 12 last year, in which. 13 leading American journalists died, the Dutch Aviation Council announced hero today.
The aircraft, of the Royal Dutch Airlines, was
piloted by Coptain M. Van Der Vaart, aged 33.
It crashed on a hill near Bombay's Santa Cruz French troops
Airport, killing all aboard-11 members of the crew and 33 passengers..
expected to point out to the West-friendship which already exists little doubt that Communist landing at an airport with which
possible.
ol
crn leaders any possible nreas where agreement betwren the between the peopics of our two Russians and the West may be countries, but as a result of the China is now and will con
sincere
co-operation the tinue to be the base of opera- peoples of these two great spun-tions to seize control tries of Asia will prove to be a South East and Central Asia.
rent contribution to the lusting pence of Asia and the world."
pener
Before he left th this mission to Moscow, Mr. Lie he
ectured that the cold war could lead sconer or later only 1 shooting war between East and Werk. He said an effort to bridge the gap must be made this year.
United Press.
CONTROL OF STEEL
DISTRIBUTION
London, May 22. The Labour Government today Auve up its control of the dis- tribution of steel in Britain-
Ind
China's Prime Minister, Chou Fa-lai, who was present at the ceremony the subsequent inceting between Mao and Dr. Panikkar, had received Dr. Panikkar two days earlier, when
of
were
The Captain's first error in judgment, says the Dutch report, was his decision to attempt a
ho Was not familler under weather conditions which worse than the weather minima for landings at Bombay's airport. The second error was the Captain's decision to clrcle the Dr. Koo said, "A glance at the airport at low altituda whlo map of Asia will at once disclose he must have known about ma the signiiicant fact that Commu-cloud-obscured hill
endangering nist China ndjoins the border of the plane's safety, Korea in the East which is sepa- rated from Japan only by the adjoins Indo-China and Burma narrow strait of Tsuhima, and
in South East Asia, and through Tibet and Sinklang province reaches the borders of India,
An important contributing fac- added, was the Santa Cruz Alr- tor to the crash, the report
port control tower's fallure LO advise the plane to suspend Its landing until weather conditions recommend a
India and the Afghanistan, Nepal and Eastern Improved, or to
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New Delhi, May 22.
Pakistan.
There can be no doubt that the fall of mainland China to Com- munism is a severe blow to the cause of democracy and freedora. It is not only a great blow to the Chinese National government but also-a-serious danger to--the Western democracies in the cold
in the House of Commons, today, The Indian Prime Minister sald that any regulation of steel Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, was -expoets still necessary would-be asked at his press "conference Sadie druinistratively between today whether Britain could
war." the steel call upon India as a Common- wealth country to provide soldiers to fight in Malaya, and whether India would agree to do so.
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Taiwan's importance
Stressing the strategic impor- lance of Taiwan, Dr. Kõo remind- ed listeners that the Japanase faunched their attacks on the Philippines from Taiwan.
"This is a very extraordinary question," Mr. Nehru replied, "and one which entirely mis- He added, "The Stralt of For understands even Dominion re- mosa is astride the trade route lationship quite apart from our between Japan and Korea in the being a Republic. It is unthinkable North and
of South countries in Dominion relationships for East Asia for communication and one of the countries of the Com-supplies. The security of Taiwan monwealth to call upon another is a matter of common interest to offer soldiers. We have gond for all countries and peoples who beyond that. We are not are concerned with the problem Dominion. but a Republic." of sate guarding Korea, Japati
and South East Asia.”
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Asked whether Britain would
Dr Koo said the extension of "us little as $10,000,000 per month
landing at another' uirport,
By assigning the plane to ono of the airport's runways, the re- port said, the control tower made it necessary for the plane to fly across the dangerous hili.
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were specialists in international affairs, The crash was a very great tragedy, and a great to the United States,"
The report said that on the disposal maps at the Captain's during the fight the hil which the plane crashed was not clearly indicated."
on
But in the Aviation Council'; opinton the maps were clea: warning of the danger of colli Blon while circling Santa Cruz Airport.
No defacts
The Dutch report endorsed the Andings of the Indian Committed to the extent that the
plane's wreckage showed no proof of
defects, any mechanical
which might have caused the crash.
with
On the Indian report's asser- tlon that the plane's captain was probably not familiar with the weather minima for landings Bombay
Dutch Airport, the Counali-stated that I cannot accept the assertion that an ax- The Dutch Aviation Counott's | perienced captain would not report on the crash was based have acquainted himself on the report of the inquiry these conditions." Committee of India's Civil Aviation Department last December, and hearings by the Dutch Counofl.
Among the American Journal- 1sts killed in the crash were Mr. HR. Knickerbocker, well-known war correspondent and an autho- rity on foreign affairs, and Mr. Charics Gratne, senior staff mem- Monitor," ber of the "Christian Science
on
Issued Captain Van Der Vaart had oral 4,115 nying hours to his credit, and had flown from Amsterdam to Djakarta 26 tires.
Others were: Mr. Nat Barrows, Chicago "Dally Newa" Syndicate, Miss Elsie Dick, Mutual Broad- casting System, Beriram Hulen, New York Times" S. Burton Heath, George Noosad' and Vin-
be allowed ito have her ships and planes refuelled at Indian for both, military, and economic cent Mahoney.
ports if she decided to send arms to Indo-China · Mr. Nehru said, "I do not think that there is any probability of that happening."
The Prime Minister continued, "Secondly, the necessity (ol re- fuelling at Indian ports) is not likely to arisé because we do not come in the way and, so far as the ships are concerned, they would not come to Indian poris at all.
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