It was on February 16. 1918. that portunity for bargining occur again. I Lithuania declared its independence. hope our negotiators will seize it and thus severing its bonds with Russia. demand the restoration of freedom for Lithuania had been a great and free Estonia. Latvia. and Lithuania. nation as far back as 1253 but had been According to the census of 1960. the a part of the empire of czarist Russia population of the United States included since 1795. when the last of her terri- 403.000 people of Lithuanian stock. of tory was seized by her powerful neighbor. whom 121.000 were foreign born. My own While the new republic was able to sep- State of Illinois leads in the number of arate itself from Russia soon after the foreignborn Lithuanians. with 28.000. arolselk rvomusi ofoner the. followed by New York with 17.800. MasBolshevik revolution of November 1917. sachusetts with 13.400. and Pennsylvania its existence as a free nation was des- with 13.300.
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