The International Rescue Committee began a $1‐million fund‐raising campaign here yesterday to help doctors, teachers and other intellectuals who have fled from East Pakistan to India.

In opening the campaign, Angier Biddle Duke, the honorary chairman and former United States Ambassador to Spain, said that the. Pakistanis posed the greatest refugee crisis since World War II.

The committee is focusing on helping members of the professions because they have been a particular target of the Pakistani Army's attempt to suppress the Bengali independence movement in the eastern wing of the country. Doctors, teachers and others will be paid $50 to $100 monthly to work among their countrymen in refugee camps in India.

The International Rescue Committee was set up in 1933 initially to help refugees from the Nazis and has since helped other refugees.