dated April 24, 1951: Gaekwar meets Nehru:

The ex-Ruler of Baroda, Sir Pratap Singh Gaekwar, had an interview with Prime Minister, Nehru in New Delhi on April 22. Besides his representation he had made to the President, Sir Pratap Singh was believed to have assured the Prime Minister and the States Minister, Mr. Gopalaswami Ayyangar of his unqualified allegiance to the Constitution and the Government and conveyed his sincere apologies for any acts of omission on his part.

British Minister's view on Korea:

Expressing his views on the war in Korea, Mr. Emmanuuel, British Minister of Defence said in Haswell (County Durham): ``It might be that, with the removal of Gen. MacArthur from the Korean atmosphere, the situation might improve, but we cannot tell. ``I am bound to say that I regret to say that the Peking Government is not more responsive to the suggestions that have been made to negotiate peace in Korea. I think the opportunity has been present for some considerable time but here again is the opportunity for the United Nations representatives and representatives of the Peking Government to get together to bring this Korean affair to an end. We would like to bring this thing to an end, but we must face the fact that the world is troubled, disturbed, disordered, tense, and anything might happen. Our hope is that the tense position may become easier, that reason may persuade the Russian and Chinese Governments to come to some conclusion with ourselves and with the United States of America and other countries in order to promote world peace.''

Mr. Wilson resigns:

Reliable sources in London said that Mr. Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade resigned from the Cabinet. He was the second Minister to walk out of the Government in 24 hours following the resignation of Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Labour and Left-wing member of the Cabinet.

In his letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Mr. Bevan had said that, in his opinion the budget was not equitably distributed between the various social classes. The budget was likely to increase prices in order to reduce civil consumption and that it represented the start of the destruction of social services.

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