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MRS. GANDHI TELLS ME OF
HER FRIGHTENING RESPONSIBILITIES
Q NE OF THE
most horrifying calamities
ever to visir masses of humans has
just fallen on the shoulders of a woman as one of
nwnerous problems to solve.
The whole world was shocked as news headlines
told of the mounting mass deaths caused by the cholera
epidemic hitting victims from East Pakistan fleeing
into India.
Last December in my personal meeting with the Prime
Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi told me of the crushing
burden of the problems that are her responsibility. One of her
most serious problems was that of the Pakistan refugees, then
at the rate of about 1,500 per day, streaming across the border
into India - destitute, helpless, for her overburdened govern–
ment to feed, clothe and house.
Then, since my visit with her, the Pakistani problem
erupted as if "all hell had broken loose." East Pakistan
exploded into civil war. The refugee problem was increased to
an overwhelming extent. Then, late May, the cholera epidemic
started, spreading to a gigantic calamity
in
early June. On top
of thls, the monsoon rains broke over eastern India J une 5th.
By that time Indian estimates were that the spread of cholera
had already killed 5,000 refugees in India who had fled from
East Pakistan.
Mrs. Gandhi had flown promptly to Calcutta to obtain
first-hand information on the raging epidemic. She
h~d
appealed
to other nations for help. Medical aid was being air-lifted to
Calcutta and Eastern India from Britain, the United States
and other countries. On J une 5th three Indian States, Megha–
laya, Tripura, and Assam sealed their borders against further
refugees. Inside East Pakistan, with no medica} aid, con–
ditions were reported worse. Huge refugee camps were quickly
organized to prevent spreading the cholera epidemic into
Calcutta and other cities and towns.
1 happen to be writing this month's personal in Israel,
where 78 Ambassador College students have just arrived to
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ABOUT OUR COVER
Indira Gandhi was boro in the north
Indian
city
of Allahabad. She is the
daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru,India's
ficst Prime Minister. Mes. Gandhi
was educated in India, Swiaerland,
and England. She held the post of
Minister of Information and Broad–
casting from 1964 ro 1966. Sbe was
offered, buc did not accepc, the post
of Foreign Minister. Mrs. Gaodhi
became India's third Prime Minister
in January 1966,
at
the death of
Lal Babadur Shasui.