Dear Editor
PEAR EDITOR The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. EAST PAKISTAN I feel that your "Letter from East Pakistan" (NL,...
...As a trained sociologist...
...Illiteracy needs to be conquered, as does poverty...
...when he worked on the Act of Bogota and the Social Progress Fund, the foreign and domestic foundation stones of the Alliance for Progress, Mann demonstrated not only imagination but a high competence in negotiation and administrative follow-through...
...If this is a valid idea, it follows that, in the context of human history, this event does not differ remarkably from many others which have occurred in relation to man's tendency toward unbridled and lascivious voyeurism...
...According to Professor Alexander Dallin...
...There is valid reason to expect that with Tom Mann's experience (shared by his equally intelligent and sympatica wife) in Latin America and Washington, Hemisphere relations will improve solidly without a pie-inthe-sky approach...
...Meyer's captious criticism of Assistant Secretary Thomas Mann's alleged lack of imagination is unjustified...
...In addition, there are a number of statements of fact which should not go unquestioned...
...Kreisman had spent a longer period in Pakistan in a role more productive of insight, and had been forced to work with a wider cross section of Bengalis than university students, he would have learned that attitudes to India are by no means unanimous...
...Impatient explosions full of half-truth will do nothing to help persuade the Bengali that the United States really understands both him and his problems...
...Secy., Inter-American Affairs...
...Three much more knowledgeable years as a UN Adviser gave me an entrée into governmental and other circles not accessible to a Fulbrighter and led to a much sharper "inside view" of East Pakistani society...
...Also...
...If Mr...
...Washington, D.C...
...SEATO is manning an extensive and well-run cholera research laboratory, and innoculations against smallpox are more widespread than ever...
...Kreisman shows the danger of impressionistic conclusions resulting from inadequate residence and narrow experience in the Province...
...I speak from experience, having spent my first year (1958-59) as a Fulbrighter...
...Residents of long standing know that a few months there can be very deceptive and unreliable...
...Professor Owen should know that there is such a thing as cultural lag, and this is no better demonstrated than in East Pakistan...
...Many foreigners (UN personnel...
...I think that I also have some basis for judging life in East Pakistan...
...They measure all in terms of "are we getting our fair share and do we have as great a say in government as does West Pakistan...
...The Bengalis have an inferiority complex and believe (with some real justification) that they have been discriminated against by the present government...
...than the Province which he describes...
...If my attitude to the Province is dismal...
...Albany, N.Y...
...India and the Hindus are an anathema, but there is also friction between the East and West Pakistani...
...Professor Owen comments about foreign technicians living off the fat of the land, and this looks and sounds like the Ugly American story all over again...
...Others enjoy a better standard of living, though the ones I met were skilled, dedicated, and had families that they were rearing in a most difficult environment...
...It will take time to make change...
...This display was repeated in 1963 when he worked on the Chamizal settlement which the Senate approved...
...237-238...
...In 1960...
...the figure hardly exceeds 20,000...
...No one could or would disagree that health is a problem in East Pakistan...
...EAST PAKISTAN I feel that your "Letter from East Pakistan" (NL, November 11, 1963) by John Owen is in need of a reply...
...Fulbrighters, etc...
...I can only reply that an honest appraisal of the situation based on wide experience can only lead to dismal conclusions...
...The culture of East Pakistan and the psychology of the Bengalis are extremely complex...
...Leonard T. Kreisman John E. Owen replies: Mr...
...1963), although this action was consistent with President Kennedy's resumption of relations with Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala...
...live on the local economy...
...Baltimore, Md...
...As I see it, Oswald was murdered by the camera, "by" in the sense of "adjacent to" and also "at the hands of...
...Kreisman appeared on the scene...
...No Muslim Bengali sees as a solution a return to the old concept of a unified Bengal...
...I certainly would not argue the point that improvements are necessary, and I think that most Pakistanis would also agree that progress is devoutly to be wished...
...The author's comprehension of politics in East Pakistan is especially naive for a person who has spent four years there...
...In addition they do not believe that this government is really democratic...
...blankets were on sale after the cyclones of 1960 and 1961...
...Of these, more than half are in the Arab north, perhaps another thousand in South Africa, and 2.000 in the illegal Sudanese CP...
...Willard Barber Former Deputy Asst...
...Kreisman presumes to know a great deal about East Pakistan after one academic year there...
...After having spent an academic year at the University of Dacca as a Fulbright lecturer in American history...
...Abraham Brumberg DEATH BY CAMERA It is my belief that the death of Lee Harvey Oswald is a portent of far greater magnitude than the death of John F. Kennedy, and it would be reassuring if I could discover whether others share my reasons for this belief...
...AFRICAN COMMUNISTS I am afraid I rather overstated (or understated'1) the case in my article "Black, White and Red" (NL, January 6) by asserting that "the total number of Communist party members" in Africa "can hardly be counted in the thousands...
...I am sure that the CARE officials are, and should be...
...Sylhet, and Chittagong, as well as Dacca...
...As for CARE milk on sale in Dacca shops, I saw this with my own eyes...
...But I fail to see that Owen contributes anything of a positive nature to relieving the plight of the Bengali Muslim...
...Yet progress is being made in East Pakistan, even though this may be slower than we all would like, WHO is engaged in a significant anti-malaria campaign...
...1963, pp...
...My wanderings took me to most of the settled places such as Rajshahi...
...hence the resentment, the covert and overt hostility, the suspicion, the insecurity, the failure to move...
...NL, December 23...
...disturbed by these unjustified accusations...
...U.S...
...William N. Fitzpatrick THE HEMISPHERE Karl E. Meyer disapproves of the recent resumption of relations with the Dominican Republic and Honduras ("First Weeks of the New Man...
...My preceding statement—that ?. ?. Ponomarev overstated his case by claiming that "thousands" of African Communists "died as heroes in the struggle against colonialism"—still stands...
...This, however, is based on what the Bengali feels is a lack of real democracy under Ayub Khan's rule...
...public-relations-oriented optimism based on unwillingness to face the facts can help these poor people...
...in his essay appearing in Africa and the Communist World (edited by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stanford University Press...
...I had many opportunities to visit the bazaars and at no time did I see blankets or CARE milk on sale...
...What bothers me is that we have invented and put to such pervasive use a tool which could be more destructive than any gun yet discovered...
...If this does not contribute anything positive to relieve the plight of the Bengali Muslims, I fail to see how diplomatic subterfuge or U.S...
...I might start by indicating that Owen's attitude is as dismal, if not more so...
...The answer for the most part that they come up with is No...
...Washington, D.C...
...Surely they are entitled to a bit of luxury, although luxury in terms of the sub-continent is a very relative matter...
...I was also observing WHO activity and had a working connection with the SEATO Cholera Laboratory before Mr...
...One could say the same thing about India, the Middle East or even Switzerland (recall the fairly recent typhoid scare...
...He would also have learned to be less confident of the validity of first impressions, and would see the wisdom of withholding judgment until he had experienced life in Bengal much more deeply...
Vol. 47 • January 1964 • No. 2
