During the month of June. BalticAmericans marked sad anniversaries of two events that took place more than 20 years ago. In June of 1940. forces of the Soviet Union occupied the Baltic States. and in June 1941. the Kremlin ordered mass deportations of the Baltic people. We are told that in the interim the Communists deported. exiled. or killed more than 25 percent of the entire population of Lithuania. Latvia. and Estonia. I can think of no more effective way to pay our respects to the memory of those Baltic peoples who have suffered the hardships of oppression. and I can recommend no better way to keep alive the hopes of their countrymen and the endeavors of their spokesmen in this country. than to urge the adoption of House Concurrent Resolution 293 which is my proposal to bring the forces of world public opinion to bear on behalf -of the restoration of the rights of freedom to the Baltic peoples.
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