Telegram from the Commonwealth Relations Office on Soviet reactions to the situation in India (London, 18 September 1947)
Text On 18 September 1947, the Commonwealth Relations Office informs Sir Terence Allen Shone, High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to India, about the Soviet reaction to the situation in India. He refers to an article published in the Soviet daily newspaper Pravda in which Yuri Zhukov reports on the communal disturbances affecting India and Pakistan. The Russian journalist believes that this violence is a direct result of the British plan for the partition of India, particularly the division of the Punjab.
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Source: Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations. [Inward Telegram to High Commissioner for the United Kingdom from Commonwealth Relations Office (18 September 1947)]. 18-09-1947. No 810. Kept in: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). DO - Records created or inherited by the Dominions Office, and of the Commonwealth Relations and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission and Consular Archives, India: Registered Files. Boundary Commission awards Punjab and Bengal and disturbances arising therefrom. 14/08/1947-21/09/1947, DO 133/59.
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