Vigil - An Independent Political Weekly Saturday April 22 1950

If the Muslims have reason to feel insecure in India it is not for their lack of faith in the democratic nature of the Indian State or in the bona ides of the Indian Prime Minister. [...] ter ending December 1949 In the February issue of the VIGIL International Financial Statitics it is shown that from October onwards the rate of expansion of exports to the dollar area is lagging behind the rate of the expansion of our total exports to all curency areas. [...] The New Mediator rpHE appointment of Sir Owen Dixe.n Australian Jurist as Mediator in the Kashmir dispute comes at a time when the atmosphere is not unpropitious for a solution The Mediator VIGIL is to "assist in the implmentation of a programme of demilitarisation on the basis of the McNaughton propsals." The reference to the McNaughton proposals is intriguing in view of the strong obje [...] The McNaugton Plan among other things sought to put the irregulars of the Azad Kashmir Goverment and the Indian troops in Kashmir on a par and did not provide for the handing over of the rebel-held areas to the Kashmir State goverment pending a decision by the people of the concerned areas as to their future status. [...] This was a revelation of the vulnerability of the naval defences likely to diturb the sense of confidence of the British public.