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TELCON (HOME)
Mr. Kissinger/The President
December 5, 1971 - 10:30
K:
granted you had got us anything from the Indians.
P:
Is editorial opinion building up in India's favor or is it about the
same as it was?
K:
There is nothing in the Post, nothing in the Star. There's a sort of
a wailing editorial in the New York Times that says we are to blame
for not forcing Yahya into a political settlement.
P:
Well, that comes from the State now. How do we answer that?
K:
We answer by listing all the steps we have urged Yahya to take
and that he took.
P:
Yeah.
K:
And that the Indians wouldn't give us three or four months to work
it out.
P:
Um-humm.
K:
Oh, we can kill them. When Yahya when the Indian Ambassador
left, he came in to say goodbye, I said, "Look, work out a timetable
with us for a political accommodation. Our conclusion is that there
will be political autonomy. It is just a question that we can not agree
to the forcible solution of it. 11
P:
Um-humm.
K:
I think we are except -- and then, of course, Mr. President, things
will be so much worse in East Pakistan by next summer that the liberals
will be totally discredited.
P:
Yeah. Um-humm. Oh, boy, it will be worse, won't it?
K:
Yes.
P:
Well, they may be discredited but on the other hand there will be --
we
have to understand they will try to push it off they always blame us
for whatever goes wrong, Henry.
K:
Exactly.
P:
So we will probably get blamed for that too. But in the meantime we
will have to do some other things. Well, there's nothing further we can
do --
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