WASHINGTON: The US Secretary of State and Mrs Dean Acheson on Thursday night [May 5] gave a formal dinner to Pakistan Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and his wife. Forty-seven other guests, among them some of the highest officials of the Pakistan Embassy headed by Ambassador and Mrs Ispahani and members of Mr Liaquat Ali`s party, were invited.

Secretary Acheson in a toast paid high tribute to Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan as one of the world`s great leaders, declaring: `If I could accomplish one fraction of what he has just achieved, I should feel that 1950 has been a great success.` Mr Acheson was referring to Mr Liaquat Ali`s success in arranging with Bharati Prime Minister Nehru an agreement for settling differences between their two countries.

... Mr Acheson said that Americans thought of themselves as pioneers but that the `true pioneering today is being done by Liaquat` who had to work from the very beginning to hold his new nation together. He said that Mr Liaquat Ali was dealing `with the most difficult problems...,` and `this is the most adventurous and forward-looking theory in the 20th century`. News agencies