Latvia. and Lithuania were among the first people in the 20th century to lose their freedom to Soviet colonialism. Through political. religious. social. and economic persecution. however. they have clung to the hope that freedom might one day be theirs. To the free world. and particularly to the uncommitted new nations. these three lands serve as a painful reminder of the aims of the world Communist movement. which is the conquest of all free peoples. The delegates of the Estonian. Latvian. and Lithuanian organizations of New York have endorsed a resolution commemorating Soviet occupation of the Baltic States in June 1940 and the mass deportation of their compatriots which began in 1941. Mr. President.
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