Lithuania *was admitted to the League of Nations. .adopted a constitution which guaranteed freedom of speech. assembly. religion and communication. Industrialization. agriculture and education all advanced under the independent Lithuanian Government. Unfortunately. German and Russian aggression in World War II suffocated these freedoms. In 1940. Russian occupied Lithuania. held a phony election and incorporated Lithuania into the U.S.S.R. Since then. Mr. Speaker. we have heard little from Lithuania. Soviet control has been complete over news and immigration. Like her sister Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia. Lithuania has had its sovereignty violated and its freedom suppressed by the Soviet Union.
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