Vigil - An Independent Political Weekly Saturday May 20 1950

But as days went by the people of Bengal began to feel rightly or wrongly that the deeper poltical aspects of the question were receding to the bacground and that the only desire of the Government was to administer temporary rlief to the refugees and above all avoid war at any cost. [...] There is no other choice than between voluntary surrender on the part of the capitalist of supefluities and consequent acqusition of the real happiness of all on the one hand and on the other the impending chos into which if the capitalist does not wake up betimes awakened but ignorant famshing millions will plunge the country and which not even the armed force that a powerful Gov [...] If the mere prsence of the Hindus irritated the Muslims who were the majority he would consider it to be tho duty of the Goernment to offer compensUon as it would be of the Government of a Hindu majrity province. to offer copensation to the Muslims if 9 their presence irritated the majority community. [...] They alone arrest the attention of the press and the public as also of the ministers and the goernmental officials. [...] While some people codemn the Russian iron curtain in the name of moral law the "Red" Dean of Cantebury in the name of the same moral law has condemned the golden curtain in the U.S.