পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৮৮

ایرانیا বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড are necessary for the freedom fighters and then things will be all right. But I do agree with that point of view. Sir, recognition means, whether you declare war or not, Pakistan is bound to declare war and you have to take the entire burden -Mujibnagar from where the Government is functioning today -on yourself; in that case do you think you will be serving the cause of the freedom fighters there? We will definitely not - be doing a service to them. And what will happen if you get into a war? After the Second World War we know wherever wars have started they have not ended. Even in our confrontation with Pakistan in 1965 what happened? It was a political solution that was reached and that is you Tashkent Agreement. Nowadays wherever wars start in the battle fields it never ends. And any student of international politics knows that now there is a trend of change in the political power pattern in the world. It is not that America is running to Chou out of love; it is because the American Dollar is terrified by the Japanese Yen and the West German Mark. It is to safeguard their own economy and their markets outside. They cannot now compete in the Asian market because Japan is the biggest competitor there and in the European market West Germany is their biggest competitor. The warmongers and the people in the Pentagon think that if there is a world conflagration their production will rise by 300 per cent and out of that if 150 per cent is dumped either in the pacific or in the Atlantic 150 per cent will remain for home consumption. All these merchants of death and destruction will squeeze their blood and also give a little employment to their poor people because America is also suffering from unemployment. The last American Budget was a deficit Budget. So there is no more the question of the Dollar ruling the entire. The Pattern is being changed. I not know whether it will change but the trend has started. In that view and also with our enlightened national interests in view we should consider every situation in the light of the realities of the situation and then come to a decision to take action. In that case I would advise the Government not to rush into things. Now what is American next game? It is not simply to discover the world, as Mr. Biju Patnaik said, that our Minister of External Affairs went all over the world. He has already discovered the world. It may be that Mr. Biju Patnaik is trying to discover something more. Now, what happens? America is terribly losing in the Vietnam war. They have taken a view of the Chinese market. Secondly, they want to come out of their involvement in Vietnam with grace. They would have done it peacefully, but the mongers of war in the Pentagon will not allow the Nixon administration to keep quiet. They want war somewhere or other. They want to transfer Vietnam into Bangladesh and if we get ourselves entangled in that we will be a party to that war. That war also is not going to end so soon. Therefore, I think that stand taken by the Government is the most correct stand and in steering the ship of state over tidal waters we need not worry about private opinion. Private opinion will not help in running a Government. We have to take things as they are, accept things as they are and act keeping our national interests in view. We must not follow our friend, Mr. Biju Patnaik. Unfortunately, he made a little drama and walked out of the House. He is not here now. He said that during 1962 he gave advice to Mr. Nehru. I would rather say that Mr. Patnaik misguide Mr. Nehru by saying that the Chinese forces on the other side of the border were not adequate and he could take an adventure and the same Mr. Patnaik talks of war and war. Who wants war? The poorman