Fraternity-Testvériség, 1960 (38. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1960-04-01 / 4. szám

FRATERNITY

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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF HUNGARIAN REF. FEDERATION OF AMERICA Editor-in-Chief: George E. K. Borshy. — Managing Editor:

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Volume XXXVIII APRIL 1960 Number 4

SENATOR DODDS CALLS FOR TRUE LIBERATION POLICY

(This outline of a more courageous and effective foreign policy was given exclusively to the National Confederation of American Ethnic Groups News. Approaching the days of the Summit Conference, we found it proper to reprint the thoughts of this eminent Senator from Connecticut.)

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Both political parties in the election of 1952 committed themselves to the liberation of the subjugated nations. Unfortunately, the word was used more as an electioneering slogan than as a name for a carefully though-out foreign policy that is vital to our own national security.

Let us, therefore, spell out what such a policy means in practice, and, if we use the word again, let us do so as a serious act of self-dedication.

I do not underestimate the difficulty of persuading the Kremlin to liberate its captive empire. But I can conceive of a situation where a combination of division within the Kremlin and unrest in the captive nations and hard bargaining on the part of the West will induce the Soviets, in their own interest, to grant freedom to the unyielding, troublesome, hostile captive peoples.

The Hungarian Revolution destroyed for all time the myth that Communist regimes can enjoy at least a measure of popular support. Neither one generation, nor three, nor ten, can produce a breed of men who will accept as natural the complete abrogation of human freedom.

In particular, it demonstrated three things: that (1) the