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While the Assembly sluggishly took up the six-power resolution, India's Sir Benegal Rau bustled about on another project conceived by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi: a petition to Peking. Signed by 13 nations,* the note "earnestly" appealed to Red China and North Korea "immediately to declare that it is not their intention that any forces under their control should cross to the south of the 38th parallel." Then, the petitioners added, the whole dangerous issue could be talked over...
...week's end, the Assembly was still in desultory debate. Sir Benegal Rau had received no reply from Peking. But from Peking's envoy, Wu, he heard that his petition was getting full "consideration," that Red China was "desirous of bringing the fighting to an end as soon as possible." Skeptical newsmen asked: "By conquest or negotiation?" Rau just smiled...
...India, Rau continued, would propose to the Assembly this week a cease-fire in Korea and maybe a demilitarized buffer zone between the U.N. and Communist forces. Rau had also received word from New Delhi that Mao and other Red bigwigs were in close conference with Indian Ambassador Kavalam Nadhava Panikkar, whose anti-Western slant pulls Indian policy towards "neutralism." Panikkar had reported that Peking would negotiate on two conditions: equality in conferences, which seemed to mean recognition by the U.S.; and discussion of all major Far Eastern problems, which seemed to mean acceptance of Communist demands for Korea...
...spokesman added that India would now give "very careful review" to her sponsorship of Red China. But in New York, Sir Benegal Rau, India's U.N. delegate, indicated that India was still a glutton for diplomatic punishment. Said he: "If the new government of China had been seated in the U.N., . . . [it] might have deterred any invasion...
...Double Lock. This week began with the majority pressing its counteroffensive. France's Chauvel derided Malik's lies as a case of "pointing to a chair and calling it a table." Then India's Rau made an unexpected move. He suggested that the Council's six small powers form a committee to draft a Korean peace plan; he added that India would stick by her insistence that peace must depend on a withdrawal of the North Koreans to the 38th parallel. Malik, for once, had nothing...