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Barrington, R1, April 15, 1971.
Senator J. W. FULBRIGHT,
Chairman Committee on Foreign Relations,
U. S. Senate, Washington, D.C.

 DEAR SENATOR FULBRIGHT: As Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relation of the Senate, I know you must be deeply concerned about the civil war that has been raging in East Pakistan since March 25th. My husband and I have recently returned to the United States after a five-week visit with my son who has been living in Dacca for the past three Years. Although we left before the outbreak of hostilities, we were fully aware of the strained political relations that had developed following the elections of last December. We have just received a letter from my son, Jon, who was evacuated to Tehran, Iran along with many other Americans on April 7th. He has asked me to forward the attached letter to you as well as to other members of the Foreign Relations Committee. The letter speaks for itself, but I would like to quote one paragraph (page three) with which my husband and I are in complete agreement.

 "Fully recognizing the inability of our Government to oppose actively or to intervene in this desperate oppression of the of the Bengalis, urge you to seek and support a condemnation by congress and the President of the United States of the inhuman treatment being accorded the 75 million people of East Pakistan. The silence of our government is being widely regarded as tacit approval of the action being taken by the Pakistan Military."

Sincerely yours,
EDGAR F. ROHDE.


AMERICAN EMBASSY
APO New York, N. Y. April 9, 1971.

 Two days ago my wife and I were evacuated from Dacca, East Pakistan where I have been posted for the past three years under a L". S. AID program. I am certain that you are aware of the political events preceding the army crackdown on March 25th. As a result of complete press censorship and expulsion of journalists banning of the major political party in Pakistan, and repressed information about the military complain against the civilians of East Pakistan, it probably has been difficult for you to obtain a clear picture of events since that date. From the outset of the army action the American Consul General Mr. Archer Blood and his staff in Dacca have continued to send detailed factual accounts enumerating first hand reports of the situation. These reports have been carefully connected and verified before transmission to the State Department. Publicity the State Department claims they do not have enough facts; but I have been the facts sent at length daily from Dhaka. The American Consul in Karachi also stated to me that only recently had he begun to receive the accounts about the situation in East Pakistan, when the Consulate in Dacca has been transmitting information from the start of the action.

 Although Consul Blood's reports contain a more. Detailed account of the current situation, I wish to bring to your attention the observations I have made in the past weeks in