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P:
Good. Let the liberals choose now between China and India. That'll
be very good.
K:
Exactly.
P:
Very good.
Boy, this really
you know, we don't like this but
you realize this is causing our liberal friends untold anguish, Henry.
K:
And, Mr. President, actually in terms of the political situation, first
of all we won't take any much immediate flak, but in six months the
liberals are going to look like jerks because the Indian occupation of
East Pakistan is going to make the Pakistani one look like child's
play.
P:
Yes. Well, the main thing we're not going to do is be suckered by the
Indians into a huge aid program. Now that I want clearly understood.
You know after they have screwed this thing up, by God, I can't em-
phasize too strongly how I feel. We told Mrs. Gandhi we're going to
cut off that aid and we're going to do it. Has the word gone out?
K:
The word has gone out, Mr. President, and on Monday morning -
We've already told the banks to hold it and on Monday morning it's
going to be effective. I mean nothing can happen before Monday.
P:
I see. And you're examining every other possibility of how we can
squeeze India right now.
K:
That is right, Mr. President.
P:
It's to be done. Everything is to be held up. Everything is to be
dragged. Everything else. They cannot get away with this and
well, they will get away with it, but we can't allow them to without
knowing our displeasure.
K:
But what we have to reconsider now is whether it is in our interest
to be the chief development - source of development capital - of a
country that has performed such actions.
P:
That's right. Oh, you mean next year's aid program?
K:
That's right.
P:
That's what I want now, though. The way I want that handled is for
people like Passman and some of our friends in the House and the
Senate, even the more liberal types, to come out and say cut aid to
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