P. S. I shall have to come to Washington, definitely, on Aug. 22 and leave on Aug. 23. Could I stay with you. As of Aug. 10, my telephone (812) 332-5985. I shall be here till Aug. 16. 1971.
APPEAL FOR HELP
* Washington Post: “About 4 million persons in the area of East Pakistan...
... by a cyclone and tidal wave last November face starvation because the civil war has halted emergency food distribution, officials from the area said today. In Paris. where representatives of 11 nations involved in the relief operations were meeting, it was estimated that as many as 30 million to 60 million East Pakistan's 74 million inhabitants could starve.” (May 1, 1971)
* Since then there are now 7 million refugees in India-more than the entire population of Indiana. Thousands have died of cholera and if it breaks out again tens of thousands more would die. U. S. Congressional Record indicates a distinct possibility of a famine which may cost 10 to 20 million lives.
* Life magazine captioned. ... “They are dying so fast that we can't keep count.” (June 16, 1971)
*Newsweek reports.... “I have no doubt at all that there have been a hundred My Lais....”(Junc 28, 1971)
*Congressman Gallagher. Chairman, Ilousc Sub-committee on Asian Affairs, after visiting the area, commented on June 10, 1971, on the House floor: “Let me say that the situation is the worst I have seen abroad during my 12 years of service on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs I had felt the reports of genocide, brutality, and unparalleled human misery were overstated I can now report to my colleagues that, if anything, these reports were understated.””
He concludes: “The nations the world must make a great effort to avert other great tragedies from being piled on top of the flood and cyclone and barbarity which has already occurred in East Pakistan.”
The Report of the official delegates of the World Bank described the town of Kushtia “like a World War II German town having undergone strategic bombing attacks 90 per cent of the houses, shops, banks, and other buildings were totally destroyed and the population was down from 40,000 to 4,000 In fact, the destruction of houses and buildings reminds one of Arnhem in 1944.” (New York Times, July 13, 1971)
*The International Committee on University Emergency Appeals: “Having organized to defend the life of scholarship, we cannot remain silent when the very lives and minds of scholars are shattered in bloody massacre, and their distinctive culture threatened with obliteration.” This is signed by over 100 international scholars of all shades of political opinion (e.g., Milton Friedman, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Richard Gardner. Edwin Reichhauser, ex-U. S. Ambassador to Japan) and seven Nobel Laurcates (II. A. Bethe, W. Ilciscnberg, T. D. Lee, I. I. Rabi, C. Townes', II. C. Urey and L. P. Wigner).
