dated July 20, 1951: Liaqat replies to Nehru

The Pakistan Cabinet had reportedly considered `not satisfactory' Mr. Nehru's telegram to Mr. Liaqat Ali Khan. It was also understood that a decision had been taken to invite the Indian Prime Minister to visit Karachi when the whole problem could be discussed in detail. Meanwhile Mr. Nehru had received a message from Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies, offering his good offices to solve the issue of Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Mr. Menzies had cabled his offer after hearing a report from Pakistan's High Commissioner in Canberra. Diplomatic circles in New Delhi expressed surprise that Mr. Menzies should have done so in a hurry without ascertaining the facts from India.

Old eyes in the Modern World

Passages from the third editorial: ``Wearing spectacles is, according to distinguished scientist, Sir H. Hartley, the price the world pays for industrialisation. The deterioration is primarily due to people shifting from country to town. The Times says in an editorial this may be due to the infliction of jobs which Nature did not intend man to do. That conclusion will be readily endorsed by journalists who, however far-sighted they might like to imagine themselves, are only too well and dolefully aware they ruin their eyesight by reading six-point type all their lives. It is claimed that modern methods of lighting considerably ease eye-strain which plays a great part in industrial fatigue. But it is typical of science that it takes away with the left hand what it gives with the right. The brazen orchestration of festal lights in marriage pavilions may work more havoc in a quarter of an hour's nightmare journey through a busy thoroughfare than you can hope to repair by sitting for the rest of the night in the velvety dark, or by discreet lamp-shade in your study.

``So, the world has come to the mournful conclusion that eyes were invented for spectacles. Opticians claim no perfection for their handiwork; however, those who would be like moles without spectacles readily grant that opticians do their best. But even the man who is condemned to wear a half-inch-thick lens might be jolted out of his resignation by the magnificent Sir Alexander Fleming's telling the Optical Congress that there might have been no Penicillin but for his glasses..''

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