পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭৩৮

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710 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড benefit any of the people of these two countries. Those of us who feel we can play a part, however humble it might be, have got to bring home to everyone the lesson that war will benefit no one. The sooner we can persuade the Pakistanis to permit democracy or democratic regime to be established under the Awami League in East Pakistan as part of a total Pakistan solution, the better it will be. He has made his promise. I only hope he will be able to live up to it. STATEMENT BY MR. LEE KUAN YEW, PRIME MINISTER OF SINGAPORE NOVEMBER 3, 1971. Following is a Reuter Report on the statement: The Singapore Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said in London yesterday (November 3) he believed India did not want a war with Pakistan. Mr. Lee, who was answering questions at a diplomatic and commonwealth writers' luncheon, said: "I think the Indian people themselves believe their Government missed a chance early in the year when they could have whacked the Pakistanis. I believe now that the Indians do not want to whack the Pakistanis as they have, held back so long." Exchange Unlikely Mr. Lee, who had talks earlier with the Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec DouglasHome, said he was due to be in India on November 21 and he hoped it would be peaceful. Mr. Lee, who, according to informed sources, discussed the situation in the Indian sub-continent at his one-hour meeting with Sir Alec, ridiculed suggestions of an Indian "take-over" of East Bengal. "The Indians have had so much trouble by admitting nine million refugees. Why should they want to take 70 million people?” he asked, adding: "It does not make Sense". SPEECH OF CHANCELLOR WDLLY BRANDT OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AT A DINNER GIVEN IN HONOUR OF PRIME MINISTER INDIRA GANDHI NOVEMBER 10, 1971 It gives my wife and me great pleasure to welcome you, Dear Mrs. Gandhi, and the members of your party to Germany. You know our country from previous visits. In July 1956, you came here with your father, whose memory is cherished in the Federal Republic of Germany. Your last visit of any length was in 1960. I also remember with pleasure our meeting in new Delhi in March 1959 when you had just been elected chairman of the Congress Party, and your stopover in Frankfurt in