New York. N. Y.. to observe solemnly the 13th anniversary of the mass deportations from Estonia. Latvia. and Lithuania by the Government of the Soviet Union and to mark the 14th anniversary of the brutal and unprovoked aggression of the Soviet Union against the independent Baltic Republics: Whereas the Soviet Union has arbitrarily occupied and established Communist regimes in Estonia. Latvia. and Lithuania and suppressed their freedom. and Whereas the rulers of the Kremlin. after having occupied the Baltic States. began there a regime of terror. mass arrests. and mass murders. and as June 14. 1941. marks the beginning of the Soviet mass deportations of citizens from Latvia. Estonia. and Lithuania to slave labor in remote districts of the Soviet realm. with the ultimate aim to exterminate and to forestall the national struggle for freedom and independence. and Whereas the Government of the United States has refused to recognize this "incorporation" of Estonia. Lithuania. and Latvia into the Soviet Union and continues recognition of their lawful diplomatic representatives in this country. and Whereas the investigations of the Baltic Committee. which was created in 1953 by the House of Representatives on the initiative of Representative CHARLES J.
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