পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫২১

489 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড The Times has a leader which says that it is impossible to forecast what the next move in Pakistan should or will be. There will be pressures on India to get involved. But the Times thinks India might take a cautious line because complication which India would want to avoid could arise in a situation as uncertain as this. Chinese influences might well increase if there is a guerrilla struggle develops. There is also, the Times thinks, the possibility of a movement to unite Bengal developing in West Bengal which would in fact mean a secessionist movement. The Times thinks that Mrs. Gandhi's problems are hardly less than President Yahya Khan's, and that her caution yesterday shows that she realizes this. Peter Hazelhurst writes in the Times about Mr. Bhutto. He says that the troops in East Pakistan are preserving the interests of a powerful minority. No sober-minded Pakistani can believe with Mr. Bhutto that there is a chance of a return to democracy. The West Pakistan can exect, Hazelhurst thinks, is a petty dictatorship in the West and a spell of ruthless military rule in the East. Hazlehurst says that Mr. Bhutto's behavior during the constitutional discussions pushed the Bengalis to their extreme stand. (Particularly when he persuaded the President to postpone the Constituent Assembly from March 3rd, and when in the end he insisted that his party should be included in any interim government.) Mr. Bhutto and the President with have to remember, Hazelhurst says, that they try the Sheikh, they are trying the whole of East Pakistan. The Times also carries an article by Paul Martin. Martin says that the army's action has justified the extremists in East Pakistan who claim that co-existence with the West is impossible. This means that the supporters of violent revolution who have recently been overshadowed by the Sheikh's non-violent movement will have a much wider appeal. The Guardian carries a long article by Martin Adency just back from Dacca. He says that the army for the moment is going to retain its hold except perhaps in Chittagong. The Noxalite guerrilla movements in East Pakistan are small and badly armed. The army has been building up its strength and are now reported to be three Divisions strong in East Pakistan. Adeney thinks the that serious situation the army faced in Chittagong last week might have finally persuaded President Yahya to act Adeney says that there were some incidents of Bengali nationalism taking a communal turn but on the whole the discipline of the Awami League was considerable. During the last few weeks, Adeney says that the people of East Pakistan really feet that they had taken over their own country. But they always realized there was the danger of army intervention. He says that Bengali nationalism has not been fully appreciated by the army because the officers are arrogantly scornful of Bengali, Preston thinks that there is no hope of compromise now. He says that Yahya has bungled, he has made Mujib a martry, he has turned a conservative movement for autonomy into what will eventually become a revolution, he has overstretched the army, and he will have to face the United Nations. The Financial Times has an article by Charles Smith the paper's Far East Correspondent. He says that East Pakistan's economic troubles are partly due to the fact that it is part of Pakistan. At partition East Pakistan had jute, textile mills and fertile lands whilst the West had virtually no industry and relatively and soil. But the cutting off of trade between East Pakistan and India and increasing industrialization in West Pakistan