Mr. President, I hope that Henry Kissinger can dissuade President Yahya from his present course or, as an alternative, help change the course of American policy of continued commitment to the Yahya regime's reign of terror. Mr. President, let us recognize Yahya's policy for what it is-the most brutal and deliberate genocide since Adolph Hitler.
Anthony Lewis in today's New York Times raises this ugly comparison and says:
This time there can be no excuse for any informed person failing to understand what is happening, contemporary accounts leave little to the imagination. And yet, some responsible men do not see. But the American interest goes beyond realism. We can no longer have any illusions about our ability to make unpleasant governments around the world behave well, but there does come a point at which self-respect requires us to stop helping them.
Our policy of continued shipments of arms is wrong. It is a terrible mistake. We seem to be trying to placate both India and Pakistan since the Soviet Union is siding with India and China with Pakistan. As Flora Lewis said in the Washington Post:
It courts disaster, not only for India and Pakistan. And it is more likely to wind up with a spread of Communist control into truly strategic areas than would the collapse of South Vietnam. For once grand strategy, national interest, and urgent human needs are on the same side. Why isn't the United States on that side with its main allies?
I believe that the Pakistan strife may provide an opportunity for the United States, Soviet Union, and Peoples Republic of China to attempt to reconcile a most difficult problem and thereby strengthen their common efforts at international cooperation. The President may wish to call for an international conference to discuss this problem.
Last Thursday, July 1, Canada blocked a shipment of weapons, to Pakistan. Customs officials there said the order blocked the loading of 46 crates of parts for F86 Sabre jets. Even if we have provided by license or other means arms, for Pakistan which have not left the United States, why cannot we prohibit their shipment? There is no principle in law which says that we must continue. For example, we could follow Canada's lead by asserting that our public policy overrides all contract law. A license is always subject to being withdrawn when it is contrary to public policy, for example, the license to practice law and the license to practice medicine.
We are being told today by some that the rule of law has returned to Pakistan. If that is the case, why was Sydney H. Schanberg, the New York Times correspondent, expelled from East Pakistan Wednesday, June 30? If the rule of law has returned, why did a Pakistani army platoon smash into the Hindu section of Boliadi shooting men, ransacking homes, and burning the village market.
Mr. President, the time has come for legislative action. I invite the attention of Senators to the Saxbe-Church amendment No. 159 to S. 1657, the Foreign Assistance Act. It was submitted on June 10, 1971, and at present being considered by the Foreign
