I feel that pressing for guarantees would represent not an unreasonable attempt to Impose our values on the Soviets. as some might suggest. but rather a muchneeded balancing of a onesided trading relationship. The Association of Young Lithuanian Americans has provided me with a list of very reasonable demands dealing with the Lithuanian situation which I feel would make fine points for discussion in trade negotiations with the Russians. They include: First. lowering of excessive tariffs imposed on gifts to relatives and friends residing in the Baltic States. second. increasing the current 5day tourist visa to a more reasonable limit. third. eliminating unreasonable travel restrictions on tourists to Lithuania. fourth. provisions for Lithuanians to emigrate. and fifth. freedom for the seaman Sinius Kudirka. who was denied political asylum by the United States. Progress on these five points would constitute a significant first step in helping the Lithuanians regain a measure of the freedoms lost in 1940.
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