New York Post

The imminent Washington visit of Indira Gandhi underlines the nature of the challenge to obsolete Washington positions.
Last March the oppressive Pakistan regime undertook a major offensive against the indigenous independence movement in East Pakistan. Massacre and terror have resulted in the flight of some 9,000,000 desperate human beings into India, where Mrs. Gandhi's government has valiantly labored to save them from starvation and plague. Their immediate survival requires help from the U.S. and other countries on a scale more massive than any program now conceived; India cannot conceivably carry the burden. Any ultimate solution will involve political concessions that Pakistan's Khan seems resolved to resist—as long as it continues to receive aid from the United States and as long as we fail to throw our moral and material weight on India's side.
Mrs. Gandhi's journey provides the setting for a clear revision of our pro-Pakistan stance that goes back to the time of John Foster Dulles. A sympathetic response to Mrs. Gandhi's visit could have vast impact in Pakistan and perhaps offer some glimpse of hope for the refugee multitudes facing a winter of agony. In terms of a new direction in American aid policy, there is no more urgent place to begin.