connection with Bangladesh. We met Mr. Peter Shore for the second time before he expressed his concern about Sheikh's safety. Since then, many M. Ps have come out for us.
We are highly grateful to Messrs. Peter Shore, John Stonehouse, Bruce Douglas-Mann, Fred Evans, Toby Jessel and other M. Ps for their support and understanding. And in our dealing with the M. Ps we always made it clear that nothing but complete independence would only satisfy the people of Bangladesh. With the same aim in view we wrote to other Parliamentarians. We were and still are in constant communication with U.S. Senators. We were in touch with the Senators who cosponsored the Saxbe-Chuch amendment (S 1675) to the foreign assistance act of 1961. We note with pleasure and thank the Senators for their support for Bangladesh. In the later part of July we approached 5,000 American lawyers who were in London for the American Bar Association's conference. We supplied them all with a set of literature on Bangladesh, coupled with an appeal to act for the sake of humanity. We are glad to inform you that many of them on returning to America had contacted their Senators and Congressmen. Our publications are wide and varied. The most important are our fact sheets. These are information sheets published as the occasion demanded. These are always sent to the Press, M. Ps and other organizations. To date we have published 20 fact sheets. Apart from these I we I also issued Press statements on different occasions. To inform the world we also reproduced the following booklets:
2) Conflict in East Pakistan-Background and Prospect.
3) The murder of a people-Why Bangladesh?
4) Why Bangladesh.
5) Six months of liberation struggle.
We inserted for advertisements in the local national dailies. The first one appeared in the Times urging upon the world to stop 'Genocide in East Bengal. That was before 25th March. The next one appeared in the: Guardian on 27th March under the caption' Recognize Bangladesh. That was the time when news came over that Major Jiaur Rahman formed the Provincial Government in Bangladesh. The third advertisement in the. Guardian on 20th July was captioned “An open letter to the delegates of the American Bar Association from the people of Bangladesh". Sheikh's alleged trial moved us in the same way as it did to millions in Bangladesh. We put a half page advertisement in the Times on 16th August under the caption “Wake up world. Please act immediately to stop; camera trial.” We also put an advertisement in the local Weekly Bengali JANOMOT urging upon, amongst other things, the local Bengali diplomats to sever their relations with Pakistan High Commission. The advertisement appeared on August 1st, 1971. The advertisement happily coincided with the mammoth rally-RECOGNISE BANGLADESH. On the first August, 1971. Mr. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Second Secretary Pakistan High Commission severed his relation with Pakistan High Commission.
