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Telegram from the Commonwealth Relations Office on Soviet reactions tothe situation in India (London, 18 September 1947)

Caption: On 18 September 1947, the Commonwealth Relations Office informs Sir Terence Allen Shone, HighCommissioner of the United Kingdom to India, about the Soviet reaction to the situation in India. He refers toan article published in the Soviet daily newspaper Pravda in which Yuri Zhukov reports on the communaldisturbances affecting India and Pakistan. The Russian journalist believes that this violence is a direct resultof the British plan for the partition of India, particularly the division of the Punjab.

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D.T IHDL'l. un .UOTE PRAVD!i. 1 S D'l'"lm{l',nCNAL REVI1,';'[ OF

Sfil/i'E J3ER 15T! BY ZHUKOV CC!::TALiS FIP..ST COi.i..E .T IN '.::lOVIET

?RES;:; OH RECEi.T'r DISTURB.A:.iel;:S,

2., lUOTING REPOR'.2SFP..:iu OOTISH CORHESPDI.-IDEi?rS HE SAYS

THAT FIGHTING IlT DEIH P'.AS TlffiO' IN TIB CITY IlfTO COH'IBTE

CCNPUSION. UNBURIED CORPSES IE IN THE STR&."TS S. 'DTcl .A.Re;

HEARD 001lclTA!'!TLY 1.ND THERE ARE ,.1.AUY FIRES. TOLL OF LIFE

RUH0 IlrTO FvUR ::_;1IGU::IBS, THOU.::iA.fDS OF liOSI..E..!S Ai"'IB FLBELiG

TIT P.AliIC BUT k."liY !JIB SLAUG:ITERED Oil T;iE WAY.

3. ZHIJKOV GOES ON TO Sf.Y THAT THE Rt:.ASOH FOR THL3 3ITUATIOi.'l'

IS NOT AS BRITISH REACTIOlT&i:a' NE.TSPAPERS _'\LLillE TH.\T

BRITAIN HA.S GIV'"ui INDIA T--IBR Ii'1DEPEL'iDEi:CE TOO EARLY, IT IS

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THE D~CT RESULT OF THE B~ITISE PLAN TO DIVIDE THE COUNTRY lO

THE Ii.1 .. .EDIATE CAl;SE OF TI,E DISTDRB.A.c,CES BEmG T'!E QUOTE [Ela

1IECJ-1'.Ju!IC.AL UN }UOTL P./1.RTI'rION 0~' TEE PUJ:l.1'. B ACCORDrnG TO THE

QUOTE NOTORIOU:3 UI{l,JUOTE 1, OIB1TBA.'.CTE~ PLAN. HERE THE

RELIGIOUS AHD CO;.,Jl.JTI.'fAL DISCORD FOSTEl.'illD OVER liIA.IT" YEARS

BY THE D,:PERI.iiLISTS FOIB-ID EXPRE:1SI0H IN A'i'TACKS .AND 1J.URDERS

WlnCH ASSULl.Ei) .1 OirST'.rtOLS P, OPOrtTIOHS, .ARL:EJ) Bill.IDS OF

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