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...Indian conflict, when the two nations broke off commercial ties and reduced their diplomatic relations to the charge-d'affaires level. Last week there were reports in New Delhi that the two nations would soon exchange ambassadors, which suggests an interesting question: Is China hoping to mediate the Bengal dispute and thus gain influence on the subcontinent, as the Soviets did after their role in settling the 1965 Indo-Pakistan...
...when India is beleaguered. To the natural calamities of drought, flood and cyclone has been added a man-made tragedy of vast proportions. I am haunted by the tormented faces in our overcrowded refugee camps reflecting the grim events which have compelled the exodus of those millions from East Bengal. I have come here looking for a deeper understanding of the situation in our part of the world, in search of some wise impulse which, as history tells us, has sometimes worked to save humanity from despair...
...most devastating cyclones in history have boiled up out of the Bay of Bengal. In 1876, one of them took 100,000 lives in half an hour. In 1942, a wall of sea water 30 ft. high, advancing in front of 120-m.p.h. winds, washed over 5,000 sq. mi. of Bengal. In this century's worst natural disaster, a cyclone-rose up from the bay last year and swept across the coastal area of East Pakistan, killing as many as 500,000. Last week the ghastly business of counting bodies along the bay's palm-fringed coastline...
...transfer aid that would have gone to Pakistan to East Bengal refugees in India and at the same time to increase aid to India for the costs of refugee relief...
...give aid to the people of East Bengal through...