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Last week the Premiers of India and Pakistan were partners in diplomacy for high stakes. After a seven-day conference over communal problems, Jawaharlal Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan had worked out an agreement which, if it could be made to work, might restore peace to a subcontinent on the verge...
...April 10) slowed to a trickle. Some of the refugees began to go back home, where the agreement assures them the return of any property they may have left behind. Said Nehru: "We have stopped ourselves at the edge of the precipice and turned our back to it." Said Liaquat Ali: " [The agreement] will be very helpful towards the solution of other problems which face the two countries...
...stiff opposition of Hindu extremists in Nehru's cabinet puts him in political danger if he cannot keep Kashmir for India. His agreement with Liaquat Ali last week cost him the resignations of two Moslem-hating cabinet members from riot-torn Bengal. The Kashmir mediation will be a stiffer test of whether Nehru and Liaquat Ali can make their agreement work...
...weeks ago, Pakistan's Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and India's Jawaharlal Nehru were hurling threats of war at each other. This week, the Pakistan-India crisis had grown so grave that it was no longer possible for responsible men to talk carelessly. The Prime Ministers were meeting in New Delhi "in the hope," said Liaquat Ali Khan, "that we shall, with our united efforts . . . remove all misunderstandings which have created tension between our two countries...
Nevertheless, the strength of the Mahasabha war party was growing, and it would take all the skill that Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan could muster to bring peace out of the terror that stalked Bengal...