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II THE WHITE HOUSE- INTERIOR PANEL ON WATERLOGGING AND SALINITY, 

 WEST PAKISTAN, 1961 



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Background 



We need to first of all talk about the White House panel and 

 lay out that pretty clearly, what exactly you were supposed 

 to do as the chairman. 



In 1960 I had seen that there was something called the 

 Indus Waters Treaty between Pakistan and India. Part of the 

 treaty had created a development fund, as I understand it, 

 with money from the United States, from the World Bank — . 



The Aid to Pakistan Club. 



Right. And several other organizations. 



The Aid to Pakistan Consortium I guess was the official name 

 of it. That was the United States, England, France, Japan. 

 I think West Germany was in it. Canada I'm pretty sure, the 

 western powers . 



Within a 

 Kennedy. 



year or so President Khan contacted President 



President Ayub Khan. Not Khan. Every Pathan is named Khan. 

 Actually his name was Mohammad Ayub Khan. Why don't I start 

 on how that happened? 



Okay. 



When Kennedy came into office, he appointed as his 

 ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith. His ambassador 

 to Pakistan was, as I remember it, a professional diplomat. 



Ayub Khan had fairly recently taken over the Pakistan 

 government in a military coup. He was the so-called martial 

 law administrator. In that position he also named himself 

 president of the country. As I said yesterday, he was a big 

 man who had gone to Sandhurst like most high-ranking 

 officers in both the Indian and the Pakistani army. They 

 all knew each other very well. They had all been members of 

 the same army before partition. 



It must have been very much like the situation in the 

 United States at the time of the Civil War. All these guys 

 had gone to West Point together and knew each other very 

 well and liked each other, but they were professional 

 soldiers so they were willing to fight each other if they 

 had to. 



