Prospects of an Asian Union II

1. Afghanistan, Burma, Pakistan and India voted against and Turkey and Siam abstained.

2. The Statesman, New Delhi, 16 May 1949.

3. The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 12 May 1949.

4. United Nations Treaty Series, 1947, Vol. 7, p. 300.

6. Helen Miller Davis, Constitutions, Electoral Laws, Treaties of States in the Near and Middle East. pp. 389–91.

7. Keesings Contemporary Archives 20–27 Sep., 1947, p. 8843.

8. Helen Miller Davis, op. cit., pp. 336–7.

9. United Nations Treaty Series, 1947, Vol. II, p. 304.

10. A.J. Toynbee, Survey of International Affairs, 1928, p. 439.

11. United Nations Treaty Series, 1947, Vol. 10, pp. 166–8.

12. The Independence of Ceylon, Ceylon Government Sessional Paper XXII, 1947, p. 8.

13. Keesings Contemporary Archives, Dec. 20–27, 1947, p. 9001.

14. Ibid, 26 Jan-2 Feb., 1946, p. 7695.

15. Ibid., 5–12 April, 1947, p. 8538.

16. Ibid., 7–14 August, 1948, p. 9444.

17. See Part I of this article in India Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 2, p. 111.

18. Cf. Indian Information, 1 December, 1948, p. 485. Answering a question on Asian Communism at a Press Conference in New Delhi on 12 November 1948, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said: 'The communists (of Asia) forgot the fundamental principle of communism or Marxism that it must keep in step with the conditions of the country wherein it functions. That is what Marx said, what Lenin has stressed and” even Stalin has said several times-that you cannot repeat the same thing in any country. This however, is exactly what has been done presumably in furtherance of some world policy. Whether it furthers that world policy or not, I do not know. But it has upset popular appreciation of events in this particular country.'

19. Cf. Dr. G. W. Keeton, China, the Far East and the Future, pp. 286–86; (Communist direct action) causes the occupying power to rely increasingly on conservative forces (in the legislature) amongst which nationalism is still strong–a fact to which Dr. Herbert Evatt. drew attention in a debate on Australian foreign policy in March 1947 … Whenever the occupying power withdraws, the forces of extreme left and extreme right will quickly be locked in' deadly struggle as they are elsewhere … Potentially therefore, Japan is a major storm centre of the future. Whether her problems are allowed to provoke another Far Eastern War depends ultimately upon the future relations of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

20. See Part I of this article in India Quarterly, Vol. No. 2, p. 110.

21. For a list of foreign firms in Siam, See Virginia Thompson, Thailand, the New Siani, pp. 831–41.

22. G.W. Keeton, op. cit., pp. 311–12.

23. 'Certain foreign nations, particularly those which suffered from Japanese aggression, fear that Japan's trade expansion would make her strong and a threat to peace', said the Japanese Premier Mr. Yoshida on May 11. 'All we are asking now is access to materials and markets so that we may buy the food we need to live'.–The Statesman, New Delhi, 12 May, 1949.

24. See Part I of this article in India Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 2, p. 108.