501.BC Kashmir/8–2548: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin) to the Secretary of State
1059. Following cablegram dated August 21 was sent to SC President by Hyderabad:
“The Government of Hyderabad, in reliance on Article 35 (2) of the Charter of the UN, requests you to bring to the attention of the SC the grave dispute which has arisen between Hyderabad and India and which, unless settled in accordance with international law and justice, is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security. Hyderabad has been exposed in recent months to violent intimidation, to threats of invasion, and to crippling economic blockade, which has inflicted cruel hardship upon the people of Hyderabad and which is intended to coerce it into a renunciation of its independence. The frontiers have been forcibly violated and Hyderabad villages have been occupied by Indian troops. The action of India threatens the existence of Hyderabad, the peace of the Indian and entire Asiatic continent, and the principles of the UN. The Government of Hyderabad is collecting and will shortly present to the SC abundant documentary evidence substantiating the present complaint. Hyderabad, a state not a member of the UN, accepts for the purposes of the dispute the obligations of pacific settlement provided in the Charter of the UN.
“It is understood that the submission of the present complaint to the SC does not prejudice the submission of the dispute to the GA.”1
(In circulating cablegram to SC members, SYG said he was not in position to determine whether he was required by rules of procedure to do so, but was bringing it to SC attention for such action as it might desire to take.)
- This cablegram is printed in SC, 3rd yr., Suppl. for Sept. 1948, p. 5.↩