Evening star., 1948-01-15
India Warns Council
OF War With Pakistan
II U. n. Fails 10 Act
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 15.-
India told the United Nations
Security Council today that a
full-scale war with Pakistan may
develop unless the U. N. takes
measures to halt fighting in
KaShmir.
Delivering the opening speech in
support of India's charges against
Pakistan, the Moslem Dominion,
Minister Gopalaswami Ayyangar
contended that there is at this very
moment a small war going on in
Kashmir."
He declared that the situation
was growing "graver with every
day" and then added:
1T Is of the highest importance
that action for the stoppage of
fighting should be taken with
specific expedition, not only for
saving life. property and honor,
but also for the purpose of avoid
ing the risk of a war between In
dia and Pakistan which the COM
pelling necessities of military action
might any day precipitate and make
inevitable.
Ukraine Delegate Named.
Ayyangar addressed the second
1s48 meeting of the Council and the
first one to which the Soviet
Ukraine, a newly elected member,
has assigned a delegate. Vassily A.
Tarasenko was named to the Ukrain-
ian seat and Gen. A. G. L. Nc
Naughton was nominated to begin
sitting for Canada. DR.. Jose Arce
OF Argentina, the third new nation
on the Council, was present at the
first 1948 meeting last week.
Ayyangar specifically asked the
Council to persuade Parkistan to:
1. Prevent Pakistan government
personnel, military and civil, from
participating in or assisting the in
vasion of Kashmir;
2. Call on other Pakistan nationals
to desist from taking any part in
the fighting;
3. Deny to the invaders access to
and use of its territory for opera
tions against Kashmir, military and
other supplies, and all other kinds
of aid that might tend to prolong
the present struggle.
Asks Limitation on Talks.
He also complained about "the
atmosphere of hostility and enmity
which the press in Pakistan stirred
up against india"
The India Minister said the dis
cussions should be limited to Kash-
mir alone, a point already contested
off the floor by Sir Mohammed
Zafrullah Khan, Pakistan Foreign
Minister, who represented his coun-
try here. Pakistan seeks to broaden
debate to cover all differences be-
tween the two new dominions Gre
ated by the partitioning of British
India.
Ayyangar closed . his 27-page
speech with a reference to the fast
by Mohandas K. Gandhi, declaring,
"We can make no greater contribu-
ton to the saving of his life" than
by notifying the Hindu leader of
settlement Of the Kashmir problem.
Fighting has been going on in
Kashmir, a princely state in the
northernmost area, almost since the
partitioning of British India along
Hindu -Moslem lines last August Is.
Approximately II per, cent of Kash-
Mrs 100000 people are MoSlem,
ruled until recently by a Hindu
Mararajah, Sir Hari Singh. He
requested affiliation with the
Dominion of India and New Delhi
agreed pending a plebiscite under
conditions to be specified. That
move touched off the fighting.
India considers Kashmir q part of
her territory, at least Professionally,
while Pakistan insists that the
state remains independent and
thus subject to af1iliation with
either dominion.
Plebiscite Accepted.
Britain, key factor in the dis
pute through the affiliation of the
two dominions with the common
wealth, was reported hopeful Of
agreement on an immediate truce
and an early plebiscite. Both India
and Pakistan accept the plebiscite
principal but realize such vote
might be months away.
The first major test in the case
apparently hinged on Pakistan's
plan to insist that the case be
broadened to cover other points of
difference. This includes the situ-
alton in the princely states of
Junagadh and Manvadar which.
in direct contrast to Kashmir, have
Moslem rulers over Hindu ma jor-
ity populations.
Pakistan sought to take In both
of them but withheld action after