Md. disaster. where conservative estimates Because it is very worthy of reading say a million persons are solely depend- and consideration. I ask unanimous conent for survival on effective relief opera- sent that it be placed in the RECORD. tions. The tragedy of the Bengali people There being no objection. the address in East Pakistan has now spilled over was ordered to be printed in the RECORD. into India. which so far has found it as follows: necessary to give asylum to well over a PaIDE AND PRoDcTIvrrY million refugees. During the presidential campaign of 1860 Mr. President. hundreds of thousands Alexander Stephens of Georgia was asked of people in East Pakistanperhaps mil- why he believed Lincolns election would lions of peopleare slowly reaching the mean war. "Because." he said. "there are not point of starvation and death. virtue and patriotism and sense enough left We are conditioned in the world we in the country to avoid it." ffering The observation has the ring of currency have created. to accept such surime for anyone who examines the American scene and injusticeespecially in our time today.
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