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    "ocrText": "-6-\nTOP SECRET\nIt is the policy to empty these camps as quickly as\npossible. Those who wish to stay in Delhi will be moved to\ntheir homes as soon as their security can be assured. But\nthis is not yet. Those who wish to go to Pakistan will be\nmoved there by train, but it has been necessary to S uspend\ntrain movement until such time as security can be more posi-\ntively assured. The wholesale slaughter of refugees, whether\nin trains or on the march, has been one of the most bestial\nfeatures of the grizzly Indian drama, and is apt more than\nanything else to lead to reprisals. To my certain knowledge\nevery effort is being made by the Government of India, and,\nso far as I know, by the Government of Pakistan also, to\nput an end to these massacres. There have been no major\nincidents during the ten days before I left India.\n14. The road movement of refugees from East to West Punjab\nand vice versa is an indescribable sight - miles and miles of\nhumanity - some organized and with their poor possessions,\nothers straggling and utterly destitute. In the history of\nthe world, have there ever been two simultaneous mass mi-\ngrations on this scale: Such protection as is possible is\nprovided by troops, but obviously this can only be very li-\nmited. There has been a tendency on the part of Pakistan to\nput a brake on the eastward movement of Sikh columns on the\ngrounds that the westward movement of their own people - par-\nticularly through Amritsar - is being unnecessarily slow, and\nunjustifiably insecure. But generally speaking it is the\ndesire of both Governments to get their own people into their\nown country as quickly as possible. Once this is done, there\nwill be headaches enough in all conscience: but immense and\ntempting targets for revenge will at least have been removed.\n15. The only bright spot in the last few weeks has been that\nTOP SECRET"
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