বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র: চতুর্দশ খন্ড
immediately. The U.N. would be the best coordinating organization. The Guardian goes on to say that the United Nations is in fact already considering a scheme; and it urges that this scheme is considered by the General Assembly of the U.N. in the autumn of this year. The Guardian recognizes that a U.N. Disaster Organization would be unable to do much in cases where governments are unwilling to cooperate. But it wonders whether the Pakistan Government would have been able to delay accepting outside assistance so long if there had been a fully equipped organization pressing to be allowed in. The Guardian also thinks that the Security Council could put pressure on Governments to accept help from a United Nations Disasters Organization.
The Sun which is a mass circulation tabloid newspaper, has a strongly worded editorial which blames President Yahya Khan for the sufferings of the refugees and the troubles in East Pakistan. Nevertheless the Sun thinks that aid should be given to Pakistan on the strict understanding that its distribution is supervised by some international organization like the United Nations. Another popular paper, the Daily Express, also has an editorial, The Express says that all governments should do their utmost to help the refugees, and no more so than the Government of Pakistan which in the Express's view caused the disaster.
There is also a letter in the Times and the Telegraph from Malcolm Muggeridge the journalist and Television personality suggesting that people who want to help the refugees should sent money to Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. The Salvation Army has advertisements in several papers asking people to give money to their work amongst the refugees; tonight on television there is to be an appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee.
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ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS NEWSNOTE: OPPOSITION MEMBERS OF
PARLIAMENT SIGN MOTION
ON PAKISTAN
26th June, 1971 by Murk Tully (S)
Last night over half the opposition Labor Party members of the British House of Commons signed a motion in the Commons indicating the Government of Pakistan for what it describes as the widespread murder of civilians and the atrocities on a massive scale by the Pakistan army in East Pakistan. The motion says that the government of Pakistan no longer has any right to rule East Pakistan. It calls on the United Nations to consider the situation urgently as a threat to international peace and as a contravention of the United Nations Convention on Genocide. The motion states that until order is restored under United Nations supervision the provisional Government of Bangladesh should be recognized as the vehicle for the expression of self determination by the people of East Bengal The chief sponsor of the motion is Mr. John Stonehouse a former minister for Posts and Telegraphs.
Several other former ministers have signed the motion including Mr. Reg Prentice, a former minister of Overseas Development and Mr. Richard Crossman who is now editor of the New Statesman. The Present Labor spokesman for Overseas Development, Mrs.
