ABSTRACT
The resolution appointed a Commission of the United Nations, of which the United States became a member, to work out a plan for the demilitarization of Kashmir prior to the plebiscite. What prevented the holding of the plebiscite was India's refusal to accept any proposals about the withdrawal of the bulk of her forces from Kashmir and thus conclude a truce leading to the induction of a Plebiscite administrator. The United States, Britain and France have traditionally been committed supporters of the plebiscite agreement as the only way to obtain a solution to the Kashmir dispute. They sponsored all the resolutions of the Security Council calling for a plebiscite. Similarly in Britain, both Labor and Conservative governments consistently upheld the position that plebiscite was the only way the dispute over Kashmir could be democratically and peacefully settled.
