Mr. Speaker. since the days of the Revolutionary War. Poles and Americans have joined in a common enterprise. That enterprise has been to secure liberty under a democratic national constitution. We have been more fortunate in our history than the Poles. For that reason this country has served as a fortress and a shelter for Polish refugees and immigrants. The Polish Constitution of May 3. 1791. was adopted only 3 years after our own. It had much in common with the American Constitution. Liberal thinkers throughout Europe proclaimed it as a significant step in establishing a democratic system of government.
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