CAPTIVE NATIONS' WEEK, 1968, CONFIRMED BY RAPE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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use their minds and expand their capacities
to the extent of the ability their Creator
gave them. Maybe it's so that some kids can
just grow up, period.
"We are over here for a better reason than
our ancestors had in coming to America.
They came to a ne'w world so that they
could be free. We are in Vietnam so that
others may be free. There are no new lands
to which one can run for freedom. We either
al: become free or we all go down together.
"If our leaders sell out the Vietnamese
people, they will sell the lives of our future
generations and the hopes of the world. Jesus
Christ died on the cross for humanity; and
you do not believe that I am man enough
to spend a year of drudgery, boredom and
dirt in trying to help a country and its people
be free. At the same time, my chance of
being wounded or dying is less than if I
spent the same time driving on a U.S. high-
way.
'Your excuse is that you are a mother and
love your offspring. I can assure you that
there are mothers over here and that they
feel the same way about their children ...
When I get back, do you believe I will be
sorry that I wasted a year in Vietnam? I
will only be sorry that I couldn't do more ...
"When you take humanity and dignity
away from one man, you take a part of
everyone's. How can I breathe the air of
freedom when my brother wears chains? How
can we erect monuments to justice and en-
lightenment when men are oppressed and
Ignorant? How can we reach for the stars
when some men do not live higher than
communal animals?
"The poem preceding Hemingway's novel
'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' often has been
quoted to prove this point. I can't quote it
exactly, but it's something like this: 'No
man is an island unto himself; every man
is a piece of the continent ... if a clod be
washed away, Europe is the less; any man's
death diminishes me, because I am part of
mankind; therefore never send to know for
whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'
"I don't mean to be angry with you or
to preach a sermon. I also don't want anyone
to think of me as a knight in shining armor
or as a crusader; I'm just doing my job. I get
disgusted with things here like everyone
else. But I do have a reason for being
here ... Your son, Brent."
Thank you for letting me share my son's
thoughts about his fellow man.
BRICKHOUSE REPORTS ON DISOR-
DERS: JACK BRICKHOUSE SPEAKS
OUT DURING CUB GAME BROAD-
CAST
HON. JOHN C. KLUCZYNSKI
OF ILLINOIS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, September 11, 1968
Mr. KLUCZYNSKI. Mr. Speaker, the
statement below was made by sports-
caster Jack Brickhouse during the live
WGN-TV coverage of the Chicago Cubs
home game. The following is verbatim
transcription of Brickhouse's spontane-
ous remarks during the telecast:
You know, ladies and gentlemen, I've been
thinking ... uh ... this has been on my
mind for the last couple uh days how, there's
been a lot of talk lately about the handling
of the Democratic convention, the demon-
strations and so forth, and to me who cov-
ered many of these conventions the most
unfortunate aspect of this whole thing has
been the lack of realization by many of. just
what kind of an opponent the Chicago Police
have been up against... .
Hope you read the front-page editorial in
yesterday's Chicago Tribune, or, the front-
page story from this morning's Tribune, the
really dramatic account of a brave Chicago
Policeman, Robert Pearson, who infiltrated
that hard-core Communist inner-circle of the
yippies and, at great risk fed inside infor-
mation to the Chicago Police.
And I hope you heard.the report of a bril-
liant young Chicago Police Department Press
information officer, Frank Sullivan who
really told it like it was.
Of the many I've covered, I don't think I've
ever seen a convention put to the agonizing
test that this one was, and, knowing the
planned chaos intended by imported Com-
munist leaders who con our young people
into joining them under false pretenses
knowing of the death threats, the assassina-
tions, of the Kennedy brothers and Martin
Luther King being fresh in our minds, the
irresponsible television reporting that bears
betrayal of the Public Trust, the criticism
of well meaning people who really don't
know the score.. .
Add all of them together and I say this
country owes Mayor Daley a deep debt of
gratitude, and we owe the Chicago Police
Department and Superintendent Conlisk, and
for that matter, the National Guard, the
FBI, the Secret Service and even the Andy
Frain ushers, the same debt for protecting
us from mania, who not only wanted to ruin
a political convention they want to destroy
Chicago, they want to destroy the United
States of America.
HON. H. R. GROSS
OF IOWA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, September 11, 1968
Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, a constit-
uent recently sent to me a reprint of
a letter to the editor which appeared
originally in the Evansville, Ind., Cou-
rier.
The writer, Louis Ruthenburg, warns
that the United States is following the
same socialistic path that has reduced
Great Britain to political, economic, and
social bankruptcy. He properly asks:
Have we passed the point of no return?
I commend the text of the letter to the
attention of my colleagues:
POINT OF No RETURN?
Jim Bishop's graphic and realistic piece
about the sorry status of once great Britain
brings to mind Thomas Gray's mournful
lines:
"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave
Await alike the inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Bishop's column should also remind Cou-
rier readers that, since early in the century,
we, the people of the United States, have
followed precisely the same pattern that has
reduced Great Britain to political, economic
and social bankruptcy.
Before the turn of the century, under such
great leaders as Palmerston, Disraeli, and
Gladstone, England was blessed with strong,
constructive government and became, as
Bishop remarks, "greater than Rome." Brit-
ons then could boast that "The sun never
sets on the British Empire."
During the latter part of the nineteenth
century, the Fabian Society, dedicated to
converting England to socialism, became ac-
tive. It embraced and converted British La-
bor to socialism. The British Liberal Party
affiliated with Labor in 1906 and was soon
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submerged and superseded by the Labor
Party.
As the result of that revolutionary politi-
cal transition, constructive, powerful Britain
has degenerated into the present weak, so-
cialistic welfare -state. Once proud Britons
now must eat the inevitable, bitter fruits of
socialism.
Since the turn of the century, our United
States has closely followed the British pat-
tern of degeneration.
After Lord- Keynes had popularized the
Fabian socialistic philosophy among students
and faculty members at Harvard University,
a series of socialistic associations of "intel-
lectuals" developed. These culminated in the
politically oriented Americans for Democratic
Action (A.D.A.). That - organization is the
counterpart of the English Fabian Society.
Leading sprits in A.D.A. have included Hu-
bert H. Humphrey and Walter Reuther.
Under the Wilson administration the so-
cialistic political and economic trend was
accelerated through adoption of the grad-
uated income tax and centralization of bank
control in the Federal Reserve System. Karl
Marx long since had advocated a graduated
income tax and centralized banking as meas-
ures desirable for development of socialism.
Roosevelt's "New Deal", surrendered inordi-
nate power to organized labor, just as the
English Liberal Party had promoted the in-
terests of British Labor. -
Here, as in England, our country has de- -
generated into a socialistic, welfare state.
Among headlines in the same issue of the
Courier are these: -
"Year's Deficit, 25.4 Billion Largest Since
World War II", and "County Welfare Costs
Double in Eight Years".
Here, as in England, we are "taxed beyond
endurance"; faced with disastrous inflation,
increasing crime and rioting, distrust by
other nations. We, too, now eat the bitter,
inevitable fruits of socialism.
Have we passed the point of no return?
Probably, but not inevitably.
CAPTIVE NATIONS' WEEK, 1968,
CONFIRMED BY RAPE OF CZECH--
OSLOVAKIA ---~-.
HON. WILLIAM G. BRAY
OF INDIANA
IN, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, September 11, 1968
Mr. BRAY. Mr. Speaker, this past July,
Americans and friends in 17 other coun-
tries fittingly conducted the 10th ob-
servance of Captive Nations' Week. One
of the major themes throughout all the
observance was the needed concentra-
tion on Soviet Russian colonialism as the
real enemy of both the captive nations
and the free world. Over the past 10
years this position has been amply sub-
stantiated by careful scholarsihp and
historical insight of a few scholars and
teachers on the American scene. It is a
pity that their voices have not been ade-
quately heard. But where reason and
perception fail to prevail, harsh expe-
rience inevitably surges forth. The So-
viet Russian rape of Czechoslovakia has
provided such experience. The question
now is whether we can profit by this
experience.
In any case, the truths disseminated
by the farseeing supporters of Captive
Nations' Week will continue to haunt -
those who have feared to heed them. As
the reports on the 10th observance con-
tinue to flow in, it should be quite in-
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structive to note what was said and done,
particularly now in the light of the
Czechoslovak experience. The follow-
ing examples are noteworthy: proclama-
tions by Gov. Claude R. Kirk: Jr., of
Florida, Mayor Stephen P. Clark of Mi-
ami, and Mayor Chuck Hall of Dade
County, Fla.; the first issuance any-
where of a Captive Nations' Week stamp
by the Republic of Korea; an editorial
and report on the week In Svoboda; a
statement by Senator ROMAN HRUSKA in
the August 3 issue of Human Events;
testimony by the National Captive Na-
tions Week chairmen before the Repub-
lican platform committee; an article in
the San Diego Union of July 16; a Japa-
nese statement in the WACL Bulletin of
August 1968, as well as one by Mr. Ky
Chery-Kang on the Russian Invasion:
PROCLAMATION: STATE OF FLORIDA EXECUTIVE
DEPARTMENT, TALLAHASSEE
Whereas, the United States has become a
great nation due to its ability through the
democratic process, to achieve an harmoni-
ous union of its people despite the diversity
of racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds,
and
Whereas, this harmonious unity of our free
society has led the people of the United
States to have a warm understanding for the
aspirations and interdependency of the
people and nations of the world, and
Whereas, the enslavement of a substantial
part of the world's population by Commu-
nist imperialism makes a mockery of peace-
ful co-existence between nations and raises
a barrier to the natural bonds of under-
standing between the people of the United
States and other people, and
Whereas, these captive nations look to the
United States for leadership In bringing
about their liberation eanI~d restoration of
their religious freedom. and
Whereas, it is vital to our nation's security
that the desires of these captive people be
kept alive as a deterrent to war and a means
of obtaining a lasting peace, and
Whereas, it is proper that we clearly show
these people through an appropriate cere-
mony that we share their aspirations.
Now, therefore, I. Claude R. Kirk, Jr., by
virtue of the authority vested In me as Gov-
ernor of the State of Florida do hereby pro-
claim July 14-20, 1968, Captive Nations
Week in the State of Florida.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the Great Seal of the
State of Florida to be affixed at Tallahassee,
the Capital, this 18 day of July, All, 1968.
CLAUDE R. KIRK,
Governor.
CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK IN MIAMI. 1968
(A proclamation by the mayor of the city of
Miami, Fla.)
Whereas the greatness of our nation is,
in large part, attributable to Its having been
able, through the democratic process, to
achieve harmonious unity of its people, and
Whereas in contrast to the freedoms which
the citizens of our country enjoy, the people
of more than 25 countries throughout the
world have been subjected to Communistic
tyranny, and
Whereas these submerged nations look to
the United States of America as the citadel
of human freedom and a beacon lighting the
way to their own liberation, and
Whereas the United States Congress has
designated the third week in July as Cap-
tive Nations Week,
Now, therefore, I. Stephen P. Clark, Mayor
of the City of Miami, Florida, do hereby pro-
claim the week beginning July 14, 1908, as
Captive Nations Week in Miami.
In observance thereof I call upon the peo-
pie of Miami to join In offering prayers and
dedicating their efforts toward the peaceful
liberation of oppressed and subjugated peo-
ples throughout the world.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand
and cause the seal of the City of Miami,
Florida, to be affixed.
Done in the office of the Mayor of the City
of Miami. Florida, this, the day of -
In the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred
STEPHEN P. CLARK.
Mayor.
CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK IN METROPOLITAN
DADE COUNTY. 1968
(A proclamation by the mayor of Metropoli-
tan Dade County, Fla.)
Whereas: The oppressive tactics of Inter-
national Communism' and other forms of
tyranny are holding in a state of enslave-
ment and terror many nations, Including
Cuba. just a few miles from our continental ,
shores, and
Whereas: Persecuted and oppressed in-
dividuals throughout the world traditionally
have looked to the United States as a sym-
bol of Democracy, depending on this coun-
try to lend its Influence In liberating those
who are oppressed, and
Whereas: The Congress of the United
States has designated the third week in July
of each year as Captive Nations Week, in or-
der that submerged nations everywhere may
be reminded of this country's sympathy, thus
sustaining their hopes for ultimate freedom,
Now, therefore: Be it resolved that 1. Chuck
Hall, Mayor of Metropolitan Dade County,
Florida, do hereby proclaim the week begin-
ning July 14, 1968, as Captive Nations Week
InMetropolitan Dade County.
In observance thereof: I urge the people
of Greater Miami to participate wherever pos-
sible in events arranged in observanceof this
special week and to join with others in of-
fering prayers for the liberation of oppressed
and subjugated peoples throughout the
world,
POSTAGE STAMP To COMMEMORATE THE MOVE-
MENT MR LIBERATION OF THE CAPTIVE
NATIONS UNDER THE COMMUNIST TYRANNY
The world peace and freedom of mankind
are being threatened by the constant Inva-
sions of the inhumane Communist imperial-
tam ever since the World War II. The people
of many nations were deprived of their free-
dom and are groaning under the Communist
tyranny, including our fellow country-men in
the north
In an effort to mop up such poisonous
Communist force from the earth and lend
spiritual support and sympathetic concern to
these freedom-loving peoples who are strug-
gling for survival and freedom under the
brutal Communist rule and at the same time
to further Inspire the free people with the
unswerving thought of anti-communism by
exposing to the world the atrocious acts of
the Communist and miserable life Imposed
on the people by their dictatorship, the con-
gress of the United States decided to set the
period of the 3rd week every July as the
"Captive Nation's Week," and the week dedi-
cated to ,he movement for liberation of the
captive nations under the Communist tyr-
anny, In 1959. All free nations of the world
are called upon tc come forth together with
their active measures to promote further the
anti-communism among their people and
their contribution of whatever the possible
helps to .he cause of these freedom-fighting
captive nations during the period.
Communism is the common enemy to all
free peoples.
As for Korean people who are facing the
north Korean puppet regime and their ever
increasing aggressive acts, this occasion
should he made another moment to
strengthen further their moral armament
and 'renew their determination to liberate
their fel'ow tour try-men from the bloody
Communist hancis in the north and to
achieve eventually the longing desire for the
national unification,
iFrom the Ukrainian Weekly, July 13, 19681
CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK. 1968
July 14-20 has been designated as Captive
Nations Week of 1968.
This is the tenth observance of a week set
aside to remind us that the captive nations-
the peoples themselves as against the Totali-
tarian Red states and their Communist Party
apparatus-are still very much captive.
Captive Nations Week traditionally sym-
bolizes for billions of captive peoples tire firm
dedication of America to their freedom and
Independence.
More than any event, it shows that the
right things about America stand out most
when contrasted with the combination of
political oppression and rampant economic
poverty ,hat exists in the Red Empire, partic-
ularly the Soviet Union.
In the U.B. House of Representati\ es, an
hour has been scheduled on July 17 to pay
special attention to the captive nations and
their enslavement by Communist Russia.
Similar participetion is anticipated in the
Senate.
The National Captive Nations Committee
Chairman, Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky, has ap-
pealed to all members.of the U.S. Congress to
participate in this year's Captive Nations
Week observance. He has also recommended
that the congressmen urge the creation of a
Special Committee on Captive Nations to
"dispel the dangerous myths engulfing our
country and ... calling for an unprecedented
review of U.B. policy toward the USSR, an
empire with which some Americans are ap-
parently seeking a partnership."
We. the citizens of America, can back up
these actions by our whole-hearted partici-
pation in local observances of Captive Na-
tions Week-In anti-communist manifesta-
tions such as those taking place In New York
and Pittsburgh during the next few days. A
voice, raised in behalf of our enslaved king-
THE KOREA ANTI-COMMUNIST LEAGUE,
Seoul, Korea, July 28, 1968.
DEAR SIR/MADAM: From July 15 through
21. we have observed the Captive Nation
Week on a nation-wide scale that marks the
sixth event observed In Korea. On this occa-
sion, our League held the nation-wide rallies
and performed the touring lectures.
In the citizen's Rally held in Seoul and
other main provincial cities on July 18, we
aroused our voice to urge the liberation of
the peoples subjugated under the Communist
tyranny and a resolution was passed to send
messages to our fellow countrymen in the
northern part of Korea and to the free peo-
ples of the world. We also exposed and con-
demned in the Rally .the falsehood and
atrocity of Communism and strongly urged
to all the peoples of the world under the
Communist tyranny to break off the chains
of slavery and stand firmly on the sacred
fight for the freedom and Independence.
We urge all the member units of the
WACL to be united in the fight for the
liberation of the subjugated peoples till the
moment the freedom attained and prosperity
assured. We believe firmly God will bless us
in our gallant struggle with loving care and
guidance.
Finally we are pleased to Inform you that
our Government, in response to our effort to
publicize on the Captive Nations Week, is-
sued the postage stamp to commemorate the
movement for the liberation of the captive
nations under the Communist tyranny as
clearly indicated on the stamp. We shall be
very much pleased If a few pieces of the
stamp enclosed are received by you as a small
but beautiful gift on this precious occasion.
Sincerely yours,
Lzz EuNo JooN,
Chairman,
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men in Ukraine, should be particularly strong pressed peoples has not been broken. They implicit partnership between independent
on this occasion and at. this time in history. have not given up their hopes for freedom. America and Imperio-Colonialist Moscow.
our strong support of Captive Nations An expression of the deep desire of man for None of these treaties Is of any concrete net
Week will serve to inspire citizens through- freedom can be seen in Czechoslovakia, and advantage to us, and each is of nothing=to-
out the nation to rededicate themselves to the new government has apparently re- lose-much-to-gain advantage to Moscow.
the principles of the American Revolution sponded to some extent. The aspirations of The, confetti helps to enshroud the real
and the Ideal of freedom for all peoples, the youth of Poland, however, were smothered 'enemy of Soviet Russian Imperio-colonialism
with repression and retaliation, and its communist weapons'- which are
[From the Ukrainian Weekly, July 20, 1968] In order to preserve this spirit and keep dramatically at work today in Czecho-
ANTI-COMMUNIST RALLY IN NEW YORK BEGINS alive this spark of resistance, these people Slovakia.
CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK of the captive nations must know that they (2) In its cowering appeasement of Mos-
have lively anti-Communist rhave not been abandoned. They must have cow, the Administration has systematically
NEW
Central Park lively the start of anti-Communist rally all y the reassurance of the free world that they downgraded the captive nations, the peoples
in
In Week here marked the have not been written off as a lost cause. To themselves, in favor of a self-defeating
Nations
Several hundred Uwere among al- this end, Captive Nations Week has made bridges of understanding" policy conducting
S
ral hundred Ukrainians rania a vital contribution. It serves as an excellent to the entrenchment of Red totalitarian
moat 1,000 persons attending the rally gal after
's Cathedral, means of focusing the world's attention on regimes. One need only read President John-
a mass
Cass at St.. Patrick's Wolff al (D.-Nassau the plight of these people and give the son's Captive Nations Week proclamations to
American people an opportunity to manifest notice the detachment of the Secretary of
County), one of several speakers at the rally, their concern.
noted that people everywhere look upon American signature and, one, the
America as a "bastion of freedom." Amecan n people aren't i even the invi1968 ted to ohere
par-
He called on the Soviet Union and its Chi- A NEW REPUBLICAN POLICY OF DYNAMIC of the annual observance, where
nese underlings not to silence the voices of INDEPENDENCE E heretofore e they were.
protesters but to listen to the demands for (Testimony of Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky, profes- (3) The Administration has frustrated
human rights. sor of Georgetown University, president of along a broad spectrum any consideration in
Speakers Included Judge Matthew Troy, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of favor of the independence of the captive
head of the Captive Nations Week Com- America, and chairman of the National non-Russian nations in the Soviet- Union, mittee, and Dr. Ivan Docheff. Captive Nations Committee, before the Re- which make up, a majority of the population,
program along with Estonian and Azerbaijan Mr. Chairman and Distinguished Members, non-Russian nations in the USSR-the key
to ending Moscow's indirect aggressions in
performers. the time has come for the Republican Party
m, the Korean area, the Middle East,
Representatives close to 20 captive na- to chart a new course our foreign affairs. through atin America and, In-
arched many of them in national costume, , This course must be primarily founded on througdeed,in our Havana own in country-for a working
marched from the Plaza fountain on Central an expansive knowledge of the Soviet Union, partnership with the world's worst imperial--
,'ark South to St. Patrick's Cathedral and courage to utilize such knowledge, and a na- ist system in false pursuit of "non-confron-
afterwards from the Cathedral to the band- tional will to uphold a single standard of tation and world peace:'
shell in Central Park. Over 500 persons took morality and principle in our dealings with (4) With no comprehension of the chief
part in the mass and the parade. the really prime enemy of our country. What psycho-political warfare being waged against
Demonstrators carried signs bearing we have been witnessing in this decade. is us, it has insularly blocked the passage of
slogans such as "Freedom for all subju- the very negation of these criteria and, be- the Freedom Academy bill which would
gated nations," "Human rights for all na- hind the Grand Illusion of Peace, a steady equip Americans and others to cope with
tions" and "Moscow-enemy of the free deterioration of the American posture in the this form of revolutionary warfare. This de-
world." world at large. The present course, paved by spite the fact that a majority of the House
The Ukrainian group, the largest con- mythical preconceptions, a protracted ob- Rules Committee is in favor of it.
tingent, included Ukrainian veterans, mem- scurantism, and thus fear regarding the (5) Although a new generation of Amer-
bers of the Organization of Four Freedoms main contender for world domination, will trans has emerged with little or no under-
of Ukraine and Soyuz Ukrainok, and some 100 Inevitably lead to more wars, wasteful Amer- standing of how the Red Empire has de-
standing members, some of whom had come scan sacrifices, and a further eclipse of veloped, the Administration has also resisted
by bus from the SUMA camp at Ellenville, American power. the creation of a Special House Committee
N.Y. A-new Republican policy of dynamic In- on the Captive Nations.. Here, too, in what
Others in the Ukrainian delegation were -dependence-one that will dynamicize the is supposed to be "the democratic process,"
Roman Huhlewych, Ivan Bazarko, Lev Fu- right things that have made this Nation the a substantial majority in the Rules Commit-
tala, Dr. Alexander Sokolyshyn, K. Wasylyk, greatest in the modern world-would prevent tee sees the urgent need of such a committee.
UNA Supreme Vice-President Mary Dush- further wars, restore the badly mauled (6) The ineptitude of the Administration
nyck, UCCA publications editor Dr. Walter American image and, for human freedom has also been reflected by its virtual silence
Dushnyck and Michael Spontak, head of the and justice, maximize the uses of the only in this International Human Rights Year
Friends of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Na- real power worth talking about, American concerning the deprived rights, of peoples in
tions in the U.S.A. power itself. More than anything else, this the USSR and elsewhere in the Red Empire;
Interviews with Mr. Spontak and Dr. and truly innovative policy would prepare us as its pressures for liberalized East-West trade,
Mrs. Dushnyck were conducted by represent- fitting heirs to celebrate with clear con- repeating the errors of the 30's; and its in-
atives of The New York Times, the New York sciences and pure spirit the 200th Anniver- effectual uses of the VOA, the U.N. and other
Daily News, WCBS-TV and WNEW-TV, which sary of the American Revolution and our media in the interests of world freedom, par-
were among the many communications -Declaration of Independence, only eight years ticularly during this Czecho-Slovak crisis.
media covering the day's events. away. The needs for our security, peace and vie-
Concentrating on the basic factors and Cory in this cumulative struggle can in fun-
[From Human Events, Aug. 3, 1968] causes in the world struggle, not the second- damental part be satisfied by adopting the
CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK ary and tertiary ones that Moscow steers us following as planks in the Republican Party
(By Senator ROMAN HRUSKA into, this policy is justified both, negatively, Platform:
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-~, 1-- 11 (1) the declaration of a new Republican
The observation of Captive Nations Week tion and, positively, y
recognizes the yearnings of the captives. We rity needs for our ?,,.,u- policy of dynamic independence, applicable
, victory in thisCed ui
e on th bif
must give them our support, for their aspira- strug
gle. The Administration'sfailur eseass o a one-standard morality to
all areas of the world, particularly the USSR;
tions are rightful. We are talking about 100 which constitute serious
oints of indi
t
p
c
-
million people. Our accommodations and con- ment, are as follows: (2) the promise to conduct for the first
cessions are not going to improve their posi- (1) It has pursued a confetti diplomacy in time in our history a full-scale review of U.S.
tion unless a quid pro quo is received, policy toward the USSR (Mr. Fulbright leas
regard to the main enemy, which can be been challen
The events of the past year have not accurately depicted as the international god on this and fears ft);
brought true freedom and independence to dimension of the credibility gap. The whole (3) specific support for the passage of the
any of the captive nations. Millions of people train of paper-making-the Test Ban treaty, Freedom Academy bill, even to prepare for
in the Communist-dominated countries con- Consular Convention, Outer Space treaty, the political warfare on our own terrain;
tinue to be enslaved by their Soviet masters. Non-Proliferation one, and even the Mos- (4) also specific support for the creation
They are still shackled under the tyranny cow-New York flight run-are so much con- of a Special House Committee on the Cap-
and oppression which they have known for so fetti on the scale of fundamental problems, tive Nations (Let us uphold the democratic
many years. Their individual liberties and serving to hoodwink our people as to the process) ; and
fundamental rights as human beings are still harsh realities in the Red Empire and the (5) in clear repudiation of the Democratic
being denied, And the United Nations Charter real threats to our security. The Consular Administration's policy of - silence and self-
which proclaims the principle of "equal treaty, as written, doesn't even make seman- paralysis, a courageous reaffirmation of the
rights and self-determination of peoples" tic sense. These superficialities tend, in the Party's established stand toward all of the
continues to be flaunted. - myopic tradition of the Roosevelt Adminis- captive nations including 17 million North
We also know that the spirit of these op- tration over two decades ago, to convey an Vietnamese:
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"In the spirit of dynamic Independence.
Republicans reaffirm their traditional com-
mitment to a course leading to the genuine
freedom and Independence of the Commu-
nist-dominated nations of Eastern Europe,
Asia and Latin America, including the
peoples of Poland, Hungary, East Germany,
Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Albania, Bulgaria,
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Armenia,
Ukraine, Yugoslavia and Its Serbian, Croa-
tian and Slovene peoples, Cuba, mainland
China, North Vietnam. and many others."
"In this International Human Rights Year,
we condemn the persecution of Russian,
Ukrainian and other non-Russian intellec-
tuals in the USSR and of minorities, such as
the Jews, within Communist borders."
Ladles and gentlemen, as I have quoted in
my current book The Vulnerable Russians,
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
Is that good men do nothing." Silence,
myopia, and fear are of the species of nothing
which we can Ill afford.
[From the San Diego (Calif.) Union July 16,
1968)
CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK 19 MADE MEANINOLFSS
(By Dumitru Da.nielpol)
The 10th Captive Nations Week Is being
observed this week, but one wonders why.
In 1959 a joint resolution in Congress
proclaimed the third week In July Captive
Nations Week, "until such time as freedom
and independence shall have been achieved
for all captive nations in the world."
The first presidential proclamation signed
by President Eisenhower made it clear which
these nations were.
It spoke of "many nations throughout the
world have been made captive by the im-
perialistic and aggressive policies of Soviet
communism."
It appealed to Americans "to study the
plight of the Soviet-dominated nations and
to recommit themselves to the support of
the just aspirations of the peoples of the
captive nations."
The Russians were furious. Their vehe-
ment protests Indicated they were hurt and
hurt badly by the action.
But that wa:, 10 years ago. Since 1981, the
Kennedy-Johnson resolutions have been so
watered down that they can apply to any
country.
President Johnson, in his proclamations,
.-,.does not even mention the Soviet Union or
communism.
This attitude, of course, reflects the Pres-
ident's policy of detente with the Commu-
nist leaders.
Just how far we have drifted since 1959
is demonstrated in a recent review of U.S.
foreign policy by Eugene Rostow, under sec-
retary of state for political affairs.
"We were and are opposed to communism,
and concerned about Its spread," be said.
But since 1945 "the idea of using the threat
of force, or our atomic monopoly to press
the Soviet fulfillment of its agreements at
Yalta and Potsdam was literally unthink-
able.
"We did, of course, resist Communist ef-
forts to extend what Churchill first called
the Iron Curtain," Rostow said. "But we did
not attempt to Intervene on the other side
of that line--either In East Germany in
1953 or Hungary In 1956... we have no
design against the political system which
exists in North Vietnam."
It may be pertinent to recall that Vice
President Richard Nixon advocated Ameri-
can help to the Hungarian Freedom Fight-
ers in 1956.
In the last year much has been made
of "liberalization" In Czechoslovakia and of
"an Independent attitude" in Romania.
Each small gain in a Communist state is
something to cheer about, but these are still
captive nations in which basic human rights
are denied to all people.
(Prom the WALL Bulletin, August 19681
A WORD ON TRR CAPTIVE NATIONS
(By Dr. Juitsu Kitaoks. APACL and WACL
Japan Chapter)
We are happy to note a step forward taken
this year for the liberation of captive na-
tions. On the other hand, we cannot but feel
Indignation over the Soviet persecution and
suppression of writers and other intellectuals
In the Ukraine. The whole world must cry
protest to this.
We regret, too, that the United States, the
leader of the free world, has shown luke-
warm -timidity In resisting the aggression of
North Vietnam and the Vietcong. This fact is
quite clear: If the USA gives up South Viet-
nam or recognizes Red Chins, as some of her
statesmen advocate, not only will the cap-
tive nations be further oppressed but also
the present free nations of Asia will be en-
slaved and reduced into captive nations by
Communist aggression.
We, therefore, strongly urge the USA and
all other free nations to unite in supporting
the liberation movement of the subjugated
nations and In defending the free peoples
against the Communists' direct and Indirect
aggression.
STATEMENT ISSUED ST MR. KU CHENC-KANG,
COUNCIL CHAIRMAN OF THE WORLD ANTI-
CoMMUNisr LEAOux, ON SovIET INVASION OF
CZVC HOSLA VA KIA
1. The armed invasion against Czecho-
slovakia by Soviet Russia and her satellite
nations of East Germany, Poland, Hungary
and Bulgaria fully reflects the fact that the
internal divisive movement and the crisis of
a split within the Communist empire have
developed to such an extent that Soviet Rus-
sia had to run the risk of facing unpredicta-
ble consequences, by resorting to armed sup-
pressions. With the collapse and disintegra-
tion of the Communist empire approaching,
Soviet Russia had no alternative but to use
this last resort to save a rapidly deteriorating
situation. We are convinced that history
will prove that Soviet Russia's invasion
against Czechoslovakia signifies the down-
fail and disintegration of Communism.
2. Soviet Russia's open invasion against
Czechoslovakia shattered the lies of the so-
called "International lam" and "peaceful co-
existence." Since Soviet Russia found It in-
compatible to get along even with a member
of the Communist Bloc like Czechoslovakia,
how can the free world expect her to aban-
don her design of communizing the world.
In the past, international appeasers had
thought that a "bridge" could be established
with Soviet Russia and the Chinese Com-
munists in culture and trade In order to
Improve the relations between the Commu-
nist empire and the free world. Such an il-
lusion has been crushed by the Iron heels
of the Invading Soviet troops. Peoples In the
world can, through the outrageous Soviet
actions, understand that the basic nature of
Conununism remains unchanged. This is true
of the Soviet regime, and especially true of
the puppet Chinese Communist regime.
3. Soviet Invasion against Czechoslovakia
has told the world, efforts of peoples behind
the Iron Curtain in seeking freedom must not
lack the support of external forces. The hesi-
tant and timid attitude of the free world at
the time of the Czech crisis was tantamount
to encouraging Soviet Russia to use brutal
force against Czechoslovakia in the end. Peo-
ples throughout the world ought to learn this
lesson and not to entertain any thought of
pacification or appeasement with either So-
viet Russia or the Chinese Communists.
4. In the face of outrageous Soviet armed
invasion against Czechoslovakia, all righeous
and peace-loving peoples in the entire world
should be united and, through various means,
take all possible actions to support the Czech
people In their struggles against tyranny.
In upholding justice and peace In the world,
the United Nations, in particular, should pass
resolutionsi condemning Soviet Russia as the
aggressor, adopt effective sanctions agr.inst
Soviet Russia's outrageous action,'; which have
undermirn.d the charter of the United Na-
tions, and force Soviet Russia to with.raw
her forces in order to restore the territorial
Integrity of Czechoslovakia and the complete
freedom of her people.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON REITERATES
HIS PLAN FOR WORD PEACE
TO THE 50TH ANNUAL CON-
VENTION OF THE AMERICAN
LEGION AT NEW ORLEANS, LA.
HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE
OF TEXAS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday. September 11, 1968
Mr. TEAGUE; of Texas. Mr. Speaker,
it was again my pleasure to be in attend-
ance a the American Legion Conven-
tion in New Orleans, La., when President
Ly'ndor. B. Johnson addressed the dele-
gates on Tuesday, September 10. believe
that the President was more forceful
than over in the presentation of his
speech in which he once more oatlined
the position of his administration and
our country In the role of a world leader
and our quest for a lasting peace.
The President's speech follows:
REMARKS OF THY PRESIDENT TO THE BOTH AN-
"As. AMERICAN LEOroN NATIONAL CONVEN-
TION, Nsw ORLEANS, LA., SEPTE3113ER 10,
1968
Mr. Chairman, Commander Galbra'.th, Sen-
ator Eilender, Congressman Teague, distin-
guished-members of the American Legion and
Ladies Auxiliary, my fellow Americans:
I ant deeply touched and very grateful for
your ,houghtf,ilness and for the presenta-
tion of this award, on behalf of the men who
have 9emonstrated their love of country.
Today, I have come here to your convention
to speak with you In a keynote talk about
world peace-zbout your President's efforts
to achieve it--the progress we have made-
as well as the tasks that lie ahead.
It -was 5o years ago this very month that
the ryes of the world were turned on the
efforts of the American doughboys: to reach
a railroad running across Prance, which hap-
pened to be the main supply line, at that
time of the German Army.
I remember then, as a 10-year-old boy, how
we followed the news of the Meuse-Argonne
offensive In that fall of the year 1918,
Some of yoi In this room no doubt fought
through that battle.
Some of you were there, two months later,
when the first world war in history was
brought to an end.
Now we know how brief the Illusion of
peace was, on that Armistice Day a halt
cen,ury ago In the course of five stormy
decades, we have learned how carefully peace
must be built in a complex and dangerous
world-as well as how Well peace must be
guerded.
World War I had been Ignited by a very
small flame in the Balkans. That was our
first lesson. Others followed in rapid pro-
fusion
We saw depressions leap continents. We
saw democracy weakened and break under
their weight.
We witnessed the rise of dictators and
watched aggressors stalk across borders.
We fougt.t through the Second World War
which came in the wake of their boot-
marks-and before the dust :f war had
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