Speech #890069017

On this particular occasion I wish to call to the attention of the Members of this Chamber to House Concurrent Resolution 41 which I had submitted in January of this year. This resolution portrays in a forceful way the present condition of the Baltic States as being one of total loss of freedom and independence. In clear and unequivocal terms it refers to the enslavement of the Baltic peoples and to the deportation of great numbers of lawabiding persons from their native lands to imprisonment in slave labor camps throughout the Soviet Union. The resolution then declares that it is the sense of Congress that the President should continue the American policy of nonrecognition. that the President should take steps as may be appropriate through the American delegation in the United Nations to raise the question of the forced incorporation of the Baltic States in the Soviet Union. that the United Nations investigate conditions in the Baltic States. that Soviet authority be withdrawn from the area and that the exiled peoples be returned in freedom at which time free elections will be held under United Nations supervision. If the Soviet Union were confident that the Baltic peoples would opt for continued Soviet domination. they would have nothing to fear from the intention of this resolution.