পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৬০৩

567 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড A Finance Committee was also formed in that meeting to raise fund for the relief of "Bangladesh people". A Committee meeting was also held on 18 April to discuss the present situation of Bangladesh and to draw up some constructive plan. Reports came that people are contributing at least one week’s wages or at least £25 for the initial contribution and £1 weekly will be contributed as long as our struggle continues. We distributed leaflets to people all over Wales and a weekly newssheet in Bengali language is also being published. Frank Judd on "Cruel Suppression" Prank Judd, Labour M.P. for Portsmouth West, said at Gosport on 15 April that "Britain should be prepared to suspend the aid programme to Pakistan, first to highlight concern at the treatment of East Bengal, and secondly to demonstrate Britain's refusal to be implicated in the economic support of a regime bent on "cruel suppression". Bangladesh is Inevitable Three Harvard University Professors, Edward S. Mason, Robert Dorfman and Stephen A. Marglin in a statement analyzing cultural, linguistic, social, economic and political case for independent Bangladesh, said on 1 April: "The independence of East Bengal is inevitable. What started as a movement for economic autonomy within the framework of a united Pakistan has been irrevocably transformed by the wholesale slaughter of East Bengali civilians into a movement that sooner or later will produce an independent East Bengal. Bangladesh is a matter of time." Lord Brockway Condemns Lord Fenner Brockway condemned on 18 April the Pakistan Government's action in East Bengal as "one of the most callous and brutal aggression in the world since the time of Hitler." A resolution passed at the conference of the Colonial Freedom Movement called for recognition of independent Bangladesh. Yugoslavia Assails Pindi Oppression The authoritative Yugoslav newspaper, Kommunist, the organ of the League of Communists, the ruling party which reflects the official policy. In an editorial on 7 April says: "The situation in East Bengal amounts to a civil war and we blame the Pakistani armed forces for the slaughter of thousands of innocent people. The fatal event in Pakistan is unfortunately the sixth case in the course of this year in which the army is stepping on the open political arena." Socialist Labor League A jam-packed Toynbee Hall in London's East End heard on 18 April mike Banda, the editor of WORKERS PRESS, the official organ of the Socialist Labor League,