বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড
Refugee Problem
April 27:
"We have had a number of conversations with the India Government on this subject, both here and in New Delhi, and we will be moving as promptly as we can within the framework of some form of international effort, perhaps under the United Nations, perhaps the International Red Cross. The details are not settled.
I do understand that three-and may be more, but I know of only three-voluntary agencies-Catholic Relief Service, or Service; Church World Service; and CAREwhich have humanitarian programs in India. are, with our consent, diverting some of the commodities which they use in their normal programs to establish refugee relief programs in West Bengal, which I believe will take care of roughly 150,000 refugees in West Bengal for several weeks."
"I have seen figures, with an Indian source, which suggest that there may be on the order of half a million refugees in the States of West Bengal and Assam. But I stress that we have no independent figure of our own."
