NEW DELHI: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru … at a press conference here today [Jan 2], said that the Kashmir issue stood by itself, and that although his Government had referred it to the UNO Security Council, they had “reserved to themselves the freedom to take such action in self-defence as the situation might require”. Repeating the now familiar charges against Pakistan, he declared that this Government would have been justified to strike at the bases of the “raiders” in Pakistan, but they had “no immediate intention of doing so”. — News agencies

[According to news agencies in Coventry, Britain) The “Ghetto legislation” in South Africa is “flat persecution”, George Bernard Shaw said in a message at a meeting of the Indian Workers Association… . “Smuts cannot impose his standards on a shallow and irresponsible democracy,” Shaw added. “South Africa is begging for white immigrants. The white Africans are very imperfectly civilised. They are mentally lazy and snobbish. In trade they cannot compete with the mentally alert India.” Shaw visited South Africa in 1932 and 1935, and said after the former occasion … “I was surprised to discover a very racial feud. They don’t know the South African war is over.”

Published in Dawn, January 3rd, 2023