Others. although they can celebrate it freely. do so only with sadness. because they are exiles from their native country and. as such. are cruelly cut off from family and friends in their homeland. Lithuania is so completely shut cff from the free world by the Iron Curtain. that it is difficult to obtain information about conditions there in recent years. It is known. however. that the Soviet system of collectivization and communization continues and that there has been deportation of large numbers of Lithuanians to remote parts of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile. in our own country. there are many Americans uf Lithuanian descent and friends of Lithuania who work constantly to let the captive peoples know that they are not forgotten and that we in America are not reconciled to their fate. Our own President and our own Congress have decried. in ringing words. the heavy despotism of the Soviet rule and have brought a renewal of hope to the Lithuanian captive people and their families and friends abroad.
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