Mr. Speaker. yesterday was a day of mourning in the Baltic States of Europe for it brought to mind that night in 1941 when 60.000 men. women. and children were arrested. dragged from their homes. herded into cattle cars and shipped like freight to the most forbidding regions of the Soviet Union. This was the first mass deportation. followed by others in 1945 and 1949. in which over half a million Baltic people eventually perished. These wonderful people had lived in peace for 22 years under the peace treaty of 1920 and the League of Nations. They had built their hospitals and schools. and their individual economies on a basis of peace and freedom.
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