Fraternity-Testvériség, 1963 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1963-11-01 / 11. szám

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F RATERN ITY-XX.-XV -XX^XV.-X^.-XX.-XX—xy ^^

FOR A FREE ELECTION IN CAPTIVE NATIONS

Rep. Bob Wilson (R. of Calif.) introduced a Resolution in the House of Representatives which would direct the top U. S. United Nations representative Adlai Stevenson to demand free elections for 14 countries now under the Communist empire.

Included in Wilson’s Resolution are: Cuba, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, the Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, White Ruthenia, Rumania, East Germany, Bulgaria, Armenia, Albania.

Wilson said the Soviets took control of these once-free countries “by force of arms” and that the people of these lands should have an opportunity to choose their form of government by a direct voting process. He said the United Nations should be the forum to exert world pressure on the Soviet Union to hold free elections. Wilson said, “These submerged nations look to the United States as the citadel of human freedom for leadership in bringing about their liberation and independence, and in restoring to them the enjoyment of their Christian, Jewish or other religious freedoms and individual liberties.

The California lawmaker termed keeping alive the desire for freedom among the captive nations “vital to the national security of the United States.”

Wilson’s Resolution would direct the UN contingent from the United States to bring up the free elections question at the United Nations with a request that all Soviet troops, agents or colonists, and Soviet controls be removed from the captive countries. It would call for the return of all exiles and. prisoners from Siberia and other Soviet prisons, detention camps and slave-labor battalions.

The free elections would be supervised by the UN, which would be responsible for punishing all Soviet Communists who are guilty of crimes against these nations.