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dated July 1, 1958: Internal stability

The need for internal stability and security from external danger in the face of Pakistan’s sporadic raids from both wings and the threat of Chaudhuri Ghulam Abbas, the “Azad Kashmir” leader, to effect a forced entry into Kashmir across the cease-fire line, was emphasised by Pandit G.B. Pant, Union Home Minister, while inaugurating the two-day political conference of the West Bengal Congress in Calcutta on June 29. He advised the people to behave in such a way as to ensure the stability of the Government and not to disturb law and order . In a survey of the international scene, he recalled the Chinese President Mao Tse-tung’s slogan of “Let one hundred flowers bloom” and remarked that it now seemed that “there must be one type of flower and the rest of the weeds are to be removed.” That seemed to be the trend of the Communist world, he said.

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