Security Council Hears India's Reply on Kashmir

The Security Council held morning and afternoon meetings today at which it heard India's reply to the charges on the Kashmir question made last week by Pakistani Foreign Minister Firoz Khan Noon. India's case was presented by V.K. Krishna Menon, Indian Minister without Portfolio, who started his address at the morning session and continued it in the afternoon.
Here, the Begum Ikramullah (right), one of the Pakistani representatives to the current session of the General Assembly, and Mme Pandit, of India, are having an informal chat in the Security Council chamber, before the opening of the meeting.
(Mme Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, who is the sister of Prime Minister Nehru of India, was President of the 8th session of the General Assembly, in 1953.)