U.S. NEWS AND WORLD PRESS THE 25th NOVEMBER, 1971
Washington Post’s Carroll Kilpatrick, reporting from San Clemente said that the White House is considering the possibility of taking the India-Pakistan issue to the Security Council, the issue is a delicate one for President Nixon. He wrote that if the issue is taken to the Council it could result .acrimonious debate among the great powers without having any practical impact on India and Pakistan. Kilpatrick continued: “If allowed to. .however, there is an adverse effect on great-power relationships, since all are deeply interested in the shifting power balance in South Asia, with China supporting Pakistan and the Soviet Union supporting India. An all- out war in the area could even force the President to cancel 'his plans to visit Peking and Moscow next year.”

U.S. DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE, R.T.T. File October 13,1971
New York Times’ Malcolm M. Browne in Karachi comments on President Yahya Khan’s Tuesday night Broadcast announcing that a national assembly will be convened on December 27,1971, followed by elections to fill the seats vacated after the army moved to crush the East Pakistan autonomy movement. In fact, says Browne, only a handful of the remaining assemblymen not disqualified from their seats are expected to come forward. Many have fled to India.
Baltimore Sun’s Pran Sabharwal in New Delhi notes that President Yahya’s broadcast, which many observers expected would outline his plan for settlement of the crisis in East Pakistan, was silent on matters concerning reconciliation or political accommodation with the rebels.

U.S. DIPLOMATIC MESSAGES, R.T.T. File October 12, 1971
“Last week, with the refugee population swollen to 9 million, West Bengal, the Indian state on the East Pakistani border, was in an explosive condition.”
As a result “    the temptation to get rid of the crushing
refugee burden by intervening in the fighting across the border—even if that meant another war with Pakistan— was growing for Indians all the way up to the government in New Delhi.”
Schanberg continues : “What the Indians fear most is that the tension might take on a communal color most of the East Pakistan refugees are Hindus terrorized by the Moslem West Pakistani army — and touch off a nationwide chain reaction in which India’s majority Hindus would take revenge on the country’s 60 million Moslems.

TRUE COPY OF AN OFFICE ORDER BY PAKISTAN HIGH COMMISSION IN LONDON PAKISTAN HIGH COMMISSION LONDON OFFICE ORDER No.
 MOC/7/71 Dated 11th August, 1971 The following further payments may be made to Mr. Hamidul Huq Chowdhury and Mr. Mahmood Ali. a) £ 75/ -each as contingencies for entertainment chargeable to the Government. b) £90/-each to be refunded in Pakistan currency on their return. c) D.A. for transit and stay at London as admissible to Category 1 officials. 2. Sanction in respect of admissibility of T. A. & D. A. to Category 1 officials in SSP/69/71 dated 19th June, 1971. 3- . Sanction for payment of refundable and non-refundable Foreign Exchange has not been received but instructions are contained in Telegram No. 5981 dated 10th August, 1971 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 4. Expenditure is debitable to 35-PA/B-l Delegation to UN and other International conferences etc. Sd/ - (Bakhtiar Ali) HEAD OF CHANCERY

U.S. DIPLOMATIC MESSAGES : RTT File, September 28,1971 , IPS United Nations Correspondent.

United Nations, Sept. 28, 1971—A policy of restraint and a search for political solution are the recommendations repeatedly being made in the U N. General Assembly to end the conflict troubling East Pakistan and threatening the rest of the Indian subcontinent.
In the first two days of the Assembly’s Annual General Debate, four nations—Sweden, France, Iran and the Soviet Union have urged the Government of Pakistan to pursue that course.
French Foreign Minister Maurice Schuman praised the United Nations’ humanitarian effort to help the East Pakistanis victimized by the conflict, as well as international response in money und supplies that have supported that effort.

U.S. DIPLOMATIC MESSAGES: RTT File, August 2S, 1971 

Senator Edward M. Kennedy has again called on the United- States to stop all military and economic aid to West Pakistan until that country comes to a political accommodation with East Pakistanis now under military occupation as a result of their claims for greater political and economic freedom.
At the same time the United States should greatly expand, its present humanitarian aid to India to help her care for millions of East Pakistanis who have taken refuge on her soil, the senator said in a speech to the National Press Club on Thursday.