India And Pakistan

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30951, 6 January 1966, Page 8

India And Pakistan

Sir,—The “Saturday Review,” New York, carried an article by its associate publisher, William D. Patterson, reviewing Pakistan’s political moves since August: “Qualified foreign observers here put the case bluntly: the Pakistan assault on Kashmir was planned in close concert with Red China to defeat and humiliate, if not destroy, democratic India as China's only real ideological rival for political hegemony in Southeast Asia and thus much of the Far East. Kashmir was in fact, they argue, the pawn in a much larger game. . . . In this actual warfare the Indian Army routed the Pakistan forces with superior tactics, superior command in the field, and superior use of weapons. It was at this moment that China issued its ultimatum to relieve the defeated Pakistan. Pakistan had launched, in alliance with China, a religious, civil, and ideological war against India, the largest democracy in the Far East and one committed to peaceful progress based on strengthening and expanding its democratic institutions.”— Yours, etc., R.G.F. January 5, 1966.