In a letter to The Times, he said: “With a parliamentary debate this week focusing public attention on the crisis in Pakistan perhaps, the British Government will now shake itself out of its criminal complacency over the massacre of the people of Bangladesh by West Pakistan”.
AP adds from Washington: The Washington Daily News has advised President Nixon to withhold aid to Pakistan until he is sure that it will be shared with the people of East Bengal.
In an editorial, the paper said, “An emissary of the Pakistani military regime is in the USA seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to stave off his country's financial collapse. President Nixon should consider most carefully before giving any help to the Pakistani Central Government. As far as we can see its sole distinction was its brutal if not genocidal attack on the Bengali people of East Pakistan.”
