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M eanwhile, the U nited N ations had continued its concern with
Jam m u and Kashmir. In M arch 1950 the U N appointed Sir Owen
Dixon, the distinguished Chief Justice of Australia, its representative
in India and Pakistan. In the course of his mission Sir Owen raised
with the Prime M inisters of both countries the possibility of regional
plebiscites, either throughout the various regions within the State or in the Valley of Kashm ir alone, leading to a partition of the State.
N ehru showed interest in the plan, probably believing that Sheikh
Abdullah could ensure a vote for India in a plebiscite in the Valley.
However, the plan was rejected by both Sheikh Abdullah himself and by the Pakistani Prim e M inister, Liaquat Ali Khan. Dixon, in his
report to the U nited Nations in Septem ber 1950, rejected the idea of a plebiscite of the entire State, saying: «The interest of the people, the
justice as well as the perm anence of the settlement, and the imperative
necessity of avoiding a n o th e r refugee problem , all p o in t to the
wisdom of adopting partition as the principle of settlem ent and of
abandoning that of an overall plebiscite. But in addition the economic
and geographic considerations point in the same direction.* However,
the Dixon plan — probably the best hope then available for a peaceful
and perm anent solution to the Kashmir dispute — fell to the ground.
Page 18 of the report
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