পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৮৮

556 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড self styled government in exile complains it is not getting enough arms from India. Those Indians who are demanding the recognition of Bangladesh are not satisfied with the present scale of aid to the guerrillas, says the Economist correspondent. He says that political parties have been cooperative in moderating their statements, and there has so far been no communal trouble except in Assam, but there is serious danger of communal rioting arising out of the smallest incident. There is also wild talk, the correspondent says, of a war being cheaper than feeding millions of refugees. The Indian government has not taken part in such talk, but seems undecided as to what they should do. The Economist says that even the policy of giving more help to the guerrillas could jeopardize the goodwill India has earned by taking on the refugee problem. > ! THE PRESS ON THE INDO-PAKISTAN WAR 5th December 1971 by Mark Tully The fighting between India and Pakistan is very widely in all today's papers. There are on the spot reports, analyses, features and editorials. In its editorial, the Sunday Times says that there is not much point in trying to identify who to blame for the war. The paper fears that the most likely outcome of the war is disintegration, chaos and enormous suffering. The best hope the Sunday Times thinks, would be for Pakistan to evolve with Sheikh Mujib, a system of autonomy in East Pakistan which would allow the refugees start returning. This, the pepar says would mean that president Yahya Khan would have to hand over the presidency to someone else. But the fighting must be stopped first. The Sunday Times welcomes the fact that the security Council is discussing the conflict. The Observer in its editorial calls the war infinitely sad. Even sadder, it says is the way in which the rest of the world has just watched the madness develop. The movement towards war started, according to The Observer, with the Pakistan Government's attempt to impose a military solution on East Pakistan. The open involvement of the Indian Army in the fighting in East Pakistan started the change from a civil war into an international The most sensible aim for international action, the Observer says, would be negotiations to restore the Federal unity of both halves of Pakistan with real homerule in the East. If this is not possible, then an East Pakistan independent of both India and Pakistan would be the next best. The paper suggests that as well as discussion at the Security Council about stopping the fighting, the international community should make a bigger contribution to support the refugees. The Sunday Telegraph also feels that the best solution to the crisis would be a political compromise whereby East Pakistan became independent in fact, though not in name and it wonders whether the Great Powers in secret contact with each other might not be able to devise such a compromise. If diplomacy can do nothing, the Telegraph thinks the best solution would be a quick Indian victory in the East and a completely new start in the Gangetic Delta. But emphasizes that a diplomatic solution would be much more satisfactory. If the Great Powers cannot devise a diplomatic solution, the Telegraph