THE NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 4.1971
SECURITY COUNCIL MUST ADDRESS ITSELF TO THE
ROOT CAUSE
The Security Council can no longer ignore the call to action that was sounded by the Secretary-General in a prescient warning months ago. In responding to this crisis, it is essential that it address itself simultaneously to the root cause of the conflict, the repression in East Pakistan which has placed intolerable strains on the economic, social and political fabric of neighboring India
New Delhi was moved by a deep, and legitimate sense of injury and by a desperate frustration fed by the failure of the world community, especially the United States, to recognize and to attempt to repair that injury. This fundamental failure must be corrected if the world is to be saved from still another wider and more terrible war.