Bangla Desh-Long Way to Economic Independence

THE policies of the Nixon administration towards the developments in what was East Pakistan and the war between India and Pakistan have to he viewed within the framework of the concepts of balance of power which have, ever since the Second World War, exercised a dominant influence on the foreign policy of succeeding American governments. It may seem, from the considerable criticism to which it has been subjected by American political and public opinion, that the US position is the outcome of the peculiar prejudices of the present administration or even of the present President. This is not the case, however.