There is no copy of the newspaper of May 22, 1950, in our records. The following excerpt is from the previous day’s edition.

LOS ANGELES: Standing under Hollywood’s spotlights … Mr Liaquat Ali Khan told the artists and the “brains behind the cameras and scenes” that Hollywood had now become more than a place. “It is a great industry, a centre of many arts and a world institution,” Mr Liaquat Ali Khan said at a dinner the Motion Picture Association gave at Beverly Hills near here in honour of the Prime Minister and the Begum last night [May 18].

Hearty laughter followed when the Prime Minister began his speech with a pun. Having been introduced by Frank Freeman, an official of the Motion Picture Association, Mr Liaquat Ali Khan began: “I am very happy to be introduced by a free man — not only that but by a frank free man” (laughter). … Mr Liaquat Ali Khan told the 140 guests that he would like to … speak extempore but on second thoughts would not do so as [he] had realised … the sacredness with which scripts were regarded in the film industry.

Published in Dawn, May 22nd, 2025