The Riots of 1953 — Page 104
104 A. One of the aspects of the Japanese Treaty that was causing a certain amount of discussion even among those States who were prepared to subscribe to it was that Japan was being too generously dealt with. On the other hand, there was a tendency to hold up the United States as doing something unique in human history in presenting a genorous treaty to a vanquished foe. The purport of my speech was that the most outstanding instance of generosity in human history to a vanquished foe was the treatment that the Holy Prophet of Islam had meted out to the conquered Quresh on the occasion of the Peace of Mecca. This made a most profound impression not only on the statesmen assembled but also, as the proceedings were being televised and broadcast, throughout the United States. One echo that has reached me and which I mention as ahadis- a-nemat is that when the matter was subsequently taken up in the Parliament of Australia, the opposition naturally drew attention to this generous feature of the treaty and based their opposition to the treaty on that ground. A member of the party in power, in the course of his speech said that on this occasion they should act in the spirit in which the Prophet of Islam had acted at the time of the conquest of Mecca and I am sure that he could only have taken that reference from my speech. While on my speeches, I should like to reply to the criticism of the Jamaat-i-Islami that in the Paris session of the General Assembly in 1951, when I made a grievance of the ill-treatment meted out to an Ahmadi in one of the British colonies, I made no reference to general Muslim subject in which the Muslim interests are opposed to those of the Western countries. I wish to state that the greater part of that speech of mine was concerned with the condemnation