big power politics as usual in the face of one of the greatest human tragedies of this century or any other.
Mr. President, writing in his diary of the Kennedy years and our policy in Vietnam and elsewhere, a great American. Chester Bowles, noted his fears that officials who downgrade morality in politics may find themselves without a directional compass in a period of fast breaking events. In such a situation, information is always partial so that one is forced to take action at least in pari on the basis of moral principal or political instinct. And he worried that the devotees of power politics, whose political instincts told them that considerations of morality were irrelevant, would lose their way.
Nowhere is Ambassador Bowles' observation more relevant than with regard to American policy toward this crisis. Both the President and his trusted advisers these past months have retreated to the clouds of global strategy while the human reality was millions in flight and hundreds of thousands dead.
As decent men, and I know they are, they should have listened to what their own moral sense told them. But they did not. And now they have brought lasting permitted U.S. participation in one of the American Nation. They have indirectly permitted U.S. participation in one of the worst crimes of this century and they have not achieved peace. Instead they have helped to bring on a war, whose ultimate course no one in this Chamber can predict.
I am a strong believer, however in the view that it is never too late to do light. Let us at last take this issue to the U.N. Security Council, as I and others urged weeks ago. There, all the interested great powers are now able to participate for the first time in the postwar period.
Without ruling on the merits of an independent Bangladesh, let us call for its representatives to participate. On this score we simply must not allow events again to overtake us with tragic consequences for ourselves and the people directly involved in the conflict.
Finally, let us force every one, ourselves included. 10 be honest about the bankrupt policies we have all been following.
Today, Mr. President, I am submitting a resolution, with Senators BAYH. CRANSTON. HART, HATFIELD. HUMPHREY. MGOVERN, MONDALE. TUNNEY. And WILLIAMS, which would declare it to be the sense of the Senate that the United States follow precisely this course.................
Mr. President, it is time that Members of this body and of the administration speak for the conscience of America in this hour of crisis
S. RES. 207
Whereas a fullscale war between the Governments of India and Pakistan has developed out of the current hostilities on the sub-continent; and
Whereas a prolonged conflict between those two populous countries would be a major disaster for world peace and could involve outside powers; and
