The Eastern Economist October 23 1953

The most significant gain of the Coference of the Consultative Committee of the Colombo Plan is the value added by this highly qualified advice to the raw material of many plans in the countries of this area. [...] The fact that the traffic was one way in that we were being examined whilst the plans of the assisting coutries were not was nowhere felt; this is a tribute to the tact and friendliness of the assisting countries no less than to the wise tolerance of the countries that are being assisted. [...] PROGRESS UNDER THE COLOMBO PLAN The main object of the New Delhi session of the Consultative Committee of the Colombo Plan was the review of the progress under the Plan in 1952-53. [...] The rehabilitation of the economies of Indonesia Malaya and Viet-Nam was in progress but real development has been noticed in India and Pakistan with the difference that the economy of the latter suffered adversely in 1952 and 1953 because of the price recession. [...] The reply of the countries supporting the resolution was that the crux of the matter lay in the fact that the right of the noself-governing territories to seldetermination was paramount and it was unquestionably safeguarded by the criteria set out in the resolution.