President. annually and appropriately in the Congress Captive Nations Week is observed. We are not alone In commemorating the liberty loving people who have lost their liberty behind the Iron Curtain. Annually since 1959 when a joint resolution of the Congress called upon the President of the United States to proclaim the third week of each July as Captive Nations Week. a Mass has been sung for those hapless people in St. Patricks Cathedral in New York City. On Sunday July 12. such a Mass was proceeded by a colorful procession of hundreds of immigrants and descendants of immigrants from Albania. Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia.
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