A Harvard University economist has combined an urgent appeal for relief to East Pakistani intellectuals who have fled, to India with a warning against attempts to resettle them in Europe or the United States.

Dr. Gustav F. Papanek, director of Harvard's Development Advisory Service, depicted the situation of the refugees as “desperate.”

He gave this view in a re port based on a trip he made to Calcutta late in June, written for the International Association for Cultural Freedom, a Paris‐based alliance of liberal thinkers. Early in June the association received $25,000 from an unidentified United States foundation for the relief of East Pakistani writers and scholars

“The $25,000 will run out in another two weeks,” Dr. Papanek said at his home in Cambridge, Mass.

He said the money had been used to help some 100 East Pakistani professors and their families who were forced to flee to India by the central Government's suppression of the Bengali separatist movement.

Warns Against Transfer

“My recommendations were to give all possible financial help to Indian universities and colleges that are aiding the refugees despite their own meager resources,” Dr. Papanek said, and continued:

“I made clear that it was not possible to take care of these 100 people outside the region, that attempts by some relief organizations to bring them to Europe or the United States posed impossible financial burdens and a potential disaster for the cultural climate of East Pakistan, where hopefully they might return if they remain in India.”

He estimated that with $100,000 more it would be possible to provide the Bengali professors and their families with food and shelter for a year, provided they remain in such countries as India, Ceylon or Singapore.

John Kenneth Galbraith, a director of the association and former Ambassador to India, said that aid to the East Pakistani scholars had “highest priority” and that he was “cautiously optimistic” that new funds would be found by next week.

British‐French Support

In Paris, David I. Goldstein, the association's executive director, said the relief operation was being supported by professors at Oxford and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes of Paris as well as by faculty members at Harvard.

Dr. Papanek said that more than half of the refugee scholars came from Rajshahi University, which lies closest to the Indian border, and the rest from Dacca and Chittagong. The universities, considered focal points of the Bengali separatist movement, were fiercely attacked by the Pakistani Army.

“These people are essentially destitute, having lived through hair‐raising experiences,” Dr. Papanek added. “It would cost $20,000 just to bring one family to England or the United States, clothe them and provide them with homes and books for a year.

“The problem is that India has lots of unemployed so that the logical thing would be to provide some financial support so that these people can teach or do research at universities in the region. We believe that this would take no more than $100 per family.”

University Was Attacked

The 45‐year‐old economist recounted an eyewitness report of a professor who said 41 persons were killed when Pakistani soldiers swept through a faculty housing unit at Dacca University.

“They just killed all males above the ages of 13 or 14,” Dr. Papanek said. “Only two families escaped because a courageous neighbor pretended they had left.”

Dr. Papanek is one of a number of prominent United. States economists who had been advisers to the Pakistani Government and who became disenchanted with its violent crushing of the Bengali independence movement. Others include Professor Edward Mason of Harvard and Professor Edward Dimock of Chicago University.

After working in Pakistan from 1954 to 1958, Dr. Papanek wrote a major textbook, “Pakistan's Development: Social Goals and Private Incentives,” published by the Harvard University Press. He said he is now working on another book, “which discusses what went wrong with all this economic success.”