THE NEW YORK TIMES, JUNE 16, 1971
APPALLING CATASTROPHE
By C.L Sulzberger From Paris
Hiroshima and Nagasaki arc vividly remembered by the mind’s eye primarily because of the novel means that brought holocaust to those cities. Statistically comparable disasters in Hamburg and Dresden are more easily forgotten; they were produced by what we already then conceived of as “conventional” methods.
Against this background one must view the appalling catastrophe of East Pakistan whose scale is so immense that it exceeds the colorimeter capacity by which human sympathy is measured. No one can hope to count the dead, wounded, missing, homeless or stricken whose number grows each day.