545 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পাকিস্তানে সাহায্য বন্ধের জন্য প্রেসিডেন্ট নিক্সনের | বাংলাদেশ ডকুমেন্ট ১২ নভেম্বর, ১৯৭১ কাছে আমেরিকার বুদ্ধিজীবী মহলের আবেদন AMERICAN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY'S APPEAL TO PRESIDENT NIXON TO WITHDRAW U. S. SUPPORT FROM PAKISTAN November 12,1971 Following is the appeal from hundreds of members of the American academic community in more than twenty Universities across the country: Singers included Nobel Prize winners Paul Samuelson and Salvador Luria of M.I.T. and Simon Kuznetz of Harvard; major academic specialists Gabriel Al Mond (Stanford),James Tobin (Yale), Talcott Parsons, Wassily Leontief, Daniel Bell, Seymour Lipset (Harvard), George Rathjens, Franco Modigliani and Robert Solow (M.I.T.); prominent Asian specialist Henry Rosovsky, John Montgomery, Benjamin Schwartz (Harvard), Lucian Pye. Myron Weiner, Harold Isaacs, Paul Rosenstein Rodan (M.I.T.). Alex Inkeles, John W. Lewis, Robert C. North (Stanford), Richard L. Park (Michigan), David Mandelbaum, Leo Rose, Gerald Berreman, Ralph Retzlaff (Berkeley), and others. To President Richard M. Nixon, Secretary of State William P. Rogers, and Members of the Congress of the United States: The civil war in Pakistan and the threat of War between India and Pakistan impose a heavy responsibility on the United Suites. Last March, the Pakistani army began a massive attack on the population of East Bengal which only a few months earlier had overwhelmingly supported a political party favoring regional autonomy within Pakistan. Some 300,000 Bengalis have been killed. Some nine million East Bengali refugees have been forced to flee across the borders into India. The refugee flow continues at the rate of about 30,000 a day. It lays an impossible burden on India which cannot afford to feed, clothe, and keep such a huge influx of helpless people. The Indian government has shown the utmost restraint in its effort to deal with this crisis thrust upon it by West Pakistan's attack on East Pakistan. It is West Pakistan which now threatens the peace of South Asia and war in South Asia threatens to involve not only India and Pakistan, but China, the Soviet Union and the United States. The United States is a military ally of Pakistan and the United States has followed a policy of supporting the military-led government of Pakistan. We continue to provide economic assistance to Pakistan. Despite an announced embargo, we continue to supply military aid. This policy has been justified by the argument that only in this way could we influence Pakistan and restore peace. But this policy has served only to alienate India and the people of Bangladesh and it has not succeeded in inducing the Pakistan Government to cease its campaign of terror and to seek a political settlement. This policy places the
