Mr. Speaker. there are many black days in history. but among the blackest of days were the 14th and 15th of June 1940. when the Soviet Union herded hundreds of thousands of Baltic nationals into freight cars and shipped them into Asiatic Russia. It must be remembered that the peoples of Estonia. Latvia. and Lithuania had suffered many misfortunes and been subjected to foreign rule for long periods in history. The First World War gave them their independence and they were prepared. as three young nations. to work out their national destinies in freedom and peace. This was not to be. for the conquering. ravenous. imperial designs of the Soviet Union seized upon them as their first victims. Free people everywhere join with the families and the friends of the deported in sympathy and in the common link of knowledge that the future will bring again a world peace where brother lives in harmony with brother and the welfare of the world is a cause shared by all. The F.D.R. Memorial Should Be Appropriate and Beautiful
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