We have a moral obligation to those peopleas Well as to ourselvesto insure that subjugation neither proceeds unnoticed. nor becomes accepted as an unpleasant but necessary accommodation to be sacrificed in the interest of international relations. To argue that the external policy of a state can be divorced from its repressive internal policies. would be a grave mistake. Terror. deportation. russification. restrictions on higher education. religious persecution. deprivation of property. and police control of private and public life are not by nature relative in severity and peripheral in importance. They are not activities which are to be excused or ignored in behalf of some allegedly "greater" concerns. They are tragic injustices which violate the very core of our American experience and which must be foremost in our minds when interacting with the Soviet Union.
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