TOKYO: Peking Radio today [June 25] quoted an editorial of the People’s Daily saying that the Chinese people fully agreed with Russia’s proposal for peace in Korea. The editorial was the first Chinese mention of M Jacob Malik’s cease-fire speech in New York... . … The Peking paper’s editorial said M Malik’s speech posed a further test for the United States to show whether she had “learned a lesson” and was ready to settle the Korean question peacefully. If America was willing to stop the war … she could fall in at once with “just and reasonable measures for peaceful settlement repeatedly proposed by … China, the Soviet Union and other countries...”.

The paper warned that if Washington still turned down the proposals then Korean and Chinese forces would “certainly be able to complete vanquishing the enemy invaders.” — News agencies

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies in London,] Basil R. Jackson, Deputy Chairman of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company predicted on Monday [June 25] that pressure from Iran … would force the British to withdraw... . “We don’t want to get out but we shall be forced out shortly — it may be this week, it may be next. …” Jackson told a Press conference.

Published in Dawn, June 26th, 2026