596 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ উপমহাদেশীয় যুদ্ধে চীন পাকিস্তানকে দৃঢ় ষ্টেটসম্যান ৪ ডিসেম্বর, ১৯৭১ সমর্থন দান করবে। বৃটিশ সাংবাদিক নেভিল ম্যাক্সওয়েলের সঙ্গে সাক্ষাৎকারে চীনা প্রধানমন্ত্রীর মন্তব্য CIICU PLEDGES 'FIRM SUPPORT" TO PAKISTAN From S. Nihal Singh LONDON. Dec. 4-China's attitude to an Indo-Pakistani war, spelled out for the first time by Mr. Chou En-lai, stopped short of any public commitment to supply Pakistan with money and munitions. In an interview granted by the Chinese Premier to a British journalist, Mr. Neville Maxwell, being published by the Sunday Times tomorrow, Mr. Chou promises only his country's "firm support" to Pakistan in the event of a war on the subcontinent. What this firm support will amount to is left unsaid, but Mr. Chou goes a long way in blaming India for the situation, suggests that the East Bengal problem was a "time bomb" left by Lord Mountbatten and prophesizes a continuing period of instability for the subcontinent even after a war. Mr. Chou further seeks to find a parallel between the problem of East Pakistani refugees and Tibetan refugees who had fled to India. He says that the Soviets hastily signed the Indo-Soviet treaty, which had been ready for two years, after President Nixon's visit to China was announced and blames Russia in part for the 1962 SinoIndian conflict. According to Mr. Chou the Russians had told India in 1962 that China would not fight back, While this interview serves to underline China's reversion to supporting Pakistan against India but retaining for itself a large field for man oeuvre, the Western world's reaction to the fighting on the sub-continent has been a compound of sorrow mixed with concern over war having broken out in all but name. The British Prime Minister is reported to have sent messages to Mrs. Gandhi and President Yahya Khan urging moderation and restraint. But it still seems to be Whitehall's efforts to avoid making a public move in the crisis in view of the realization that Britain's influence with both India and Pakistan is strictly limited. INDIANS ABROAD The Indian community in Britain has acted promptly in offering to return home to fight for the country and the Indian High Commission has been besieged with telephone calls.
