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AUTHORITY OF THE GREAT CREATOR GOD!
Of course there were details I can't outline in short
space. I spoke approximately 50 minutes. You may be sure these
distinguished people had never heard anything like it before.
Present were Ambassadors representing EIGHT other
governments, and wives, several Ministers of the Prime Minister's
Cabinet and wives, the new Executive Secretary to the President,
several members of Parliament and wives, three Maharajahs and
wives, prominent judges, lawyers, industrialists, etc., etc.,
nearly all with wives.
THE TRUE GOSPEL IS BEGINNING TO REACH THESE BIGGEST
NATIONS, through those who control the minds and beliefs of their
vast masses of people!
While in New Delhi I had another very nice meeting with
President V. V. Giri.
On last Friday I flew to Dacca, capital of the new country
Bangladesh (formerly called East Pakistan). I wish I had time and
space to tell you the tragic, almost unbelievable story of that
country and its recent war. It MUST be told. I will write an
article on it for The PLAIN TRUTH, which you may read later.
Bangladesh is the eighth largest nation on earth, in
population -- with 75 million people. It appeared, from what
little I saw of it, to be the most impoverished country I have
seen. Less than three years ago, it was known as East Pakistan.
In early 1971, when I was visiting New Delhi, India, Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi took some twenty minutes of our meeting to
tell me of the many thousands of East Pakistanis DAILY fleeing
as refugees across the border into India -- no earthly possessions
except what they carried on their backs -- no food, no money, no
employment. India, already impoverished with millions of poor --
needing to provide an additional hundred and fifty million jobs --
had no way to take care of these refugees. Many were half-starved
and starving, many diseased, their clothes in tatters.
After the war, freed from the yoke of a government that was
machine-gunning people by thousands because of political
differences the refugees have been returning. The number of
refugees fleeing into India had reached nearly TEN MILLION!
The present Prime Minister, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, had
been a political prisoner, jailed in West Pakistan. In January,
1972 (last year), he was released in London and immediately
returned to his people in the new Bangladesh.
Thirty minutes after my plane landed at Bangladesh airport,
I was ushered into his temporary office in a frame house that had
been a private residence. At a glance it was apparent he was a
LEADER of his people. He is big, strong, alert, active,
aggressive, emotionally and compassionately aware of the dire needs
of his people. His conviction and sincerity impressed me.