EDITORIAL : BENGAL-MONEY AND DIPLOMACY
THE GUARDIAN (London) October 6, 1971
The week has been thick with gloom about Pakistan’s displaced nine million. At Brighton, Labour publishes a peremptory statement expressing grave concern over “the totally inadequate response of the world community to Bengal’s vast refugee problem.” Oxfam announces, with open desperation, that “tens of thousands of children face slow death”. In Geneva, Prince Sadruddin Khan, keeper of UN refugees, proclaimed acute and appalling crisis : unless world aid to Bengal (which has dwindled to a “trickle”) rapidly swells once more, India expects death tolls to make the Bihari famine seem a vicarage tea party.
The week has been thick with gloom about Pakistan’s displaced nine million. At Brighton, Labour publishes a peremptory statement expressing grave concern over “the totally inadequate response of the world community to Bengal’s vast refugee problem.” Oxfam announces, with open desperation, that “tens of thousands of children face slow death”. In Geneva, Prince Sadruddin Khan, keeper of UN refugees, proclaimed acute and appalling crisis : unless world aid to Bengal (which has dwindled to a “trickle”) rapidly swells once more, India expects death tolls to make the Bihari famine seem a vicarage tea party.
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