Jute-Cost-Benefit of Dispersal

for the freedom or the East Bengalis. And the military-bureaucratic elite in Islamabad would not be any loss hostile in the bargain. The east Pakistanis would he a mass of sullen, bitter and cynical people. The dollars, pounds and roubles that might How in to feed the refugees would have scarcely earned us any gratitude. In short, Indo-Pakistani tensions would have returned to a more bitter and acrimonious note. To pretend, in these circumstances, that foreign trips are useful or that they can yield some results may be all right for a Sarvodaya leader, but can be disastrous for a nation.