523 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড If that can be done quickly, adds The Times, India may well imitate the Chinese in 1962 and briskly withdraw, announcing the end of a war that never was. And until that neat solution is completed the Russians will stonewall in the Security Council. Of course nothing like this may happen, the Times goes on. Pakistan's action in the west will in any case not be halted even if the east were overrun. That is where the danger lies and that is why the task of separating them and ending the war will be the harder. At best the United Nations can watch for an opening in the belief that the war can be kept to some settlement of East Pakistan says the times and not stumble hopelessly into a war to end war between India and Pakistan. ૭૧ | ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS REVIEW OF THE BRITISH PRESS ON INDIA/PAKISTAN 8th December 1971 Edited By William Crawley (S) Many correspondents of the British Press this morning file reports on the course of the war as seen from different places on both sides. In the Daily Telegraph Peter Gill, reporting from Calcutta says that by taking Jessore the Indian army has brought off a particularly impressive tactical coup. Through adopt manipulation of the press, says Peter Gill, the Indian Army command lulled Pakistani forces into the belief that such a well-defended town would be bypassed to avoid un- necessary bloodshed. But the Chief of Staff of Eastern Command had made it clear in Calcutta yesterday that the principal aim of Indian strategy had been to clear the Pakistani army from all areas, reports Peter Gill. Gill says that Pakistani troops may prefer to surrender to a regular army than fall into the hands of the guerrillas. Clare Hollingworth also reports in the Daily Telegraph from Dacca, on efforts by the United Nations to arrange the evacuation of women and children from the city. Mr. Paul Marc Henri, assistant Secretary general of the U.N. has been attempting to arrange a neutral zone in Dacca under the jurisdiction of the Red Cross, reports Clare Hollingworth. She writes that few people in Dacca arc bothering to take shelter when air raid sirens sound because the Indian pilots appear to be sticking to military targets. ○ふ| ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS NEWSNOTE: INDIA AND PAKISTAN 8th December 1971 by Mark Tully Yesterday, the British labor Party's international committee unanimously passed an emergency resolution which was strongly critical of Pakistan. The resolution said that the cause of the present conflict lay in the refusal of the Pakistan government to negotiate a political solution with the democratically elected leaders of the people of the country's east wing. The resolution also urged all countries to stop sending any more arms to India or Pakistan. The Labor Party's international committee put forward a five-point plan which called on both sides to stop hostilities. It also called for the release of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and a political solution which would satisfy the people of East
