Editorial Note
On January 5 the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan adopted a resolution setting forth the principles to govern a plebiscite in which the inhabitants of the state of Jammu and Kashmir would decide whether to accede to India or to Pakistan. For text of the resolution and related documentation, see United Nations, Official Records of the Security Council, Fourth Year, Supplement for January 1949, pages 23–26, and Special Supplement No. 7, the latter cited hereafter as SC, 4th yr., Special Suppl. No. 7. For additional information, see United States Participation in the United Nations: Report by the President to the Congress for the Year 1949 (Department of State publication 3765), pages 45–48.