President. has the United States become a nation so numbed and so wounded by its experiences in Indochina that it is unable to respond at times of great human disaster such as that taking place in East Pakistan? Anthony Lewis. in a perceptive column from London. raises this important question. comparing U.S. attitudes toward Pakistan and Vietnam. In the United Kingdom. for example. he points out: Children are coming home from school asking their parents for a few pence to give for relief of the East Pakistan refugees. Yet. in America. he says: By contrast. the flight of five million refugees into Impoverished India. with disease and starvation threatening. has evidently had no great public impact. Mr. Lewis says: The present episode shows the distortion in American values that has occurred because of Vietnam. the disproportion in our weighing of political and human interests.
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