Favouritism for Pindiis ‘Achilles heel of Nixon’s policy : Kennedy
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.–Senator Edward Kennedy has said the Nixon Administration’s favouritism towards Pakistan has become the “Achilles heel” of thd US Foreign policy, reports AP.
“Let us ask the American people this year simple question with whom do we wish our Government to keep faith ….. the few whose power stems from tyranny and oppression, or the millions who seek a decent life of hope and freedom for their children,” Mr. Kennedy said.
Mr. Kennedy said White House favouritism of Pakistan in the recent India-Pakistan war was a significant example of the administration’s reluctance to offend Peking in advance of Mr. Nixon’s trip to China next nionth.
“Let us hope, he said in a speech prepared for delivery before the Washington Press Club last night, “that history does not tell us that the price we paid for improving relations with China was wrong because we lost sight of other nations and deep values.”
He said he feared the Nixon Administration might be prostrating itself to Peking in its eagerness to improve relations with China.
Mr. Kennedy described the Nixon Administration as the “government by the untrustful of the untrustful.”
In a broad attack on Mr. Nixon’s policies on both domestic and foreign issues, he said: “Our present difficulties do not flow so much from the fact that people mistrust their Government as from the fact that the Government so obviously mistrusts the people.”
Reference: Hindustan Standard 19.01.1972