বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খণ্ড
all other organizations with similar objectives, such as the Steering Committee, the Students Action Committee, the Women's Action Committee. Action Bangladesh, etc. But the Bangladesh Peoples Cultural Society is an assembly of heterogeneous elements and is naturally bound to submit to the and strains of its compositional weakness. Also being a voluntary Society it cannot implementing serious programme and has no funds at its command. It can at best be helpful in carrying out same work of popular nature (c. g. patriotic music, dance recital etc.) assigned by the centre.
Finally, it is not too much to expect that the centre would be treated, by virtue of its nature of work, as a rallying point of Bangladesh citizens of all opinions and would likely to a permanent institution even after the struggle for freedom has been successfully won. This, in its expanded form, would be treated as a legacy of the freedom movement of Bengalees in United Kingdom.
In order to understand the utility of an institution like the Bangladesh Cultural Centre, we may point out same inadequacies as far as organizational situation in London is concerned. The following are illustrative examples and are not aimed at complaining against anyone.
(i) During the last seven months Justice Chowdhury has met many eminent politicians, diplomats, journalists, and useful citizens in Europe and America. As far as it is known, such meetings have not been followed up by subsequent occasional polite and personal correspondence. Mere mailing of printed bulletin to their addresses can hardly be a substitute. The centre can take care of sustaining such contracts under the general guidance of Justice Choudhury.
(ii) The Steering Committee or its successor committee will, because of its objectives, be always bouy in politically organizing the Bangladesh citizens in U. K. by arranging meetings, processions, etc. Their main occupation would be to procure funds and keep us engaged and united in our struggle for freedom. One should not expect them to be able to undertake directly the sophisticated works outlined earlier in this note.
(iii)The same may be the case for the diplomats who have recently expressed their allegiance to Bangladesh. Without any reflection on their otherwise competence, they arc trained bureaucrats who can hardly take initiative on their own to handle cultural activities to promote a revolutionary struggle. This can be illustrated by a recent example. Mr. Hasnein Beikal, the editor of the Al-Ahram of Egypt and the most influential man of letters in the Arab world, was in London in October. It was reported in the newspapers also. But it appears that no one took initiative in arranging a meeting with him for Justice Chowdhury. What a great miss!
(iv) Even a pro-Pakistan newspaper like the Dawn of Karachi published in the beginning of November the news of bomb explosion in Dacca DIT television tower, in National Press Trust Morning News building, and the closure of Karnaphuli Paper Mills, the biggest in Asia, due to guerilla activities. These
