Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1962-09-01 / 9. szám
FRATERNITY 15 THE FREEDOM PLEDGE I am a man. A free man. Free to speak — without fear. Free to worship God in my own way. Free to stand for what I think right. Free to oppose wliat I believe wrong. Free to choose those who govern my country. This heritage of Freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and for all mankind. TO FREE CAPTIVE NATIONS Senator Roman L. Hruska of Nebraska and Representative Edward J. Derwinski of Illinois, Republican Members of Congress, have introduced similar concurrent resolutions, requesting the General Assembly of the United Nations to recognize the denial of self-determination to the captive nations of Europe and Asia by Communist forces. The two Republicans, in introducing these resolutions in the respective bodies of the Congress, asked that the UN General Assembly assure that all Communist troops and agents be withdrawn from the captive nations; that prisoners be released from slave-labor camps and returned to their home areas, and that free elections under UN supervision be held in all the captive areas. — The resolutions also call attention to the fact that the captive nations continue to strive for freedom and the right of self-determination, and that the restoration of their rights is vital to the peace and security of the United States and the free world. Under no circumstances whatsoever can it be to lessen or suppress that freedom, even temporarily . . . An artist can succeed in his work or make a failure of it. He can make a success of his life or a failure of it. But if at the end of his long effort he can finally say to himself that he has lightened or diminished the sum of servitudes that weigh man down, then to a certain extent he is justified and to a certain extent he can forgive himself. Camus
