Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1946-10-11
RADIO ADDRESS BYP.J. ZURIs
President League the Liberation thuania
Friends of thuana delivered Sunday, September 1 1916
Station WATR, Waterbury, Conn.,

went to war and Stain, posing as
a lover of freedom, became our
Ally.
In 1910, trumped-up charge was
flung at the Baltic States; namely,
that they were unfriendly to the
Soviet Union, and they were given
"a hours in which to establish friend
ly governments meaning pro-
Soviet Governments. 1t was ply
sically impossible for any country
to make change-over in "a hours,
even if they were pro-Bolshevik.
Russia knew this very we'll, and so
she marched in and occupied the
Baltic States.
During that year of occupation,
they liguidated and deported all the
best element of the Baltic peoples.
They stripped the factories, banks,
public institutions, homes and farms
of everything that was movable
and loaded them into cars which
were delivered to Russia. People
were herded like cattle into nom
ventilated box cars with standing
room only, and taken to Siberian
labor camps. Those who survived
| this ordeal were to die a slow death
at the end of the line. All these
facts were known to Mr.. Roosevelt
and our State Department when
they were granting concessions in
their appeasement of the Soviets.
| The argument was advanced: "Well,
four or five million people will suf-
! fer, but we are establishing a per-
manent peace" And this theme
| song of appeasement was picked up
| not only by our commentators and
newspaper writer's, but by our re-
! ligious organizations as well. They
voiced this Russian-inspired prora-
ganda but failed to ask "Peace at
what price,"
In 1914, when the Russians re-
turned to the Baltic States, Lith-
uanians and others remembered all
their methods of liberation and fled
| to any part of the world that they
could reach. They knew that to re-
main meant something worse than
death. A good many of them reach
ed Germany, knowing that concen-
tration and labor camps, bitterness
and contempt, were awaiting them.
But they chose that to the type of
liberation brought by the descen-
dants of Ghengis Khan. They all
hoped that the western democracies
would conquer Germany and, by
so doing, would liberate them and
grant them freedom. They hoped
that, in accordance with pronounce
ments contained in the Atlantic Char
ter and the Four Freedoms, their
country would be restituted and that
they could return as free men and
women to rebuild their lives anew.
Yes, these displaced persons, of
whom there are 100000, are thank
full for the food we have given to
| them and the clothes we have sup
plies; but, in their inner souls they
| ask themselves this question: "Are
| not these donors themselves partial
| Iy guilty for our lot in not showing
moral courage by standing up for
Justice and Truth and demanding
chat the principles for which the
]emocracies fought be adhered to ?"
The lot of the displaced persons,
created by the appeasement policies
If western democracies, is deplor-
able; they are huddled in camps on
" with a very limited amount of
food, cast-off clothes, and are kept
at the mercy of their commanding
officer. They are subject to ter
'orism and intimidation of Russian
spies who are given freedom to
circulate in these camps with the
purpose of urging them to return
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were herded in box cars in the mid
lie of the night with THE AID OF
OUR OWN M. P.'s and taken to
Russia to die.
In other cases, due to our strict
screening process, families are all
broken up, mothers and children are
separated, fathers are thrown out
in the street - because they worked
in German labor battalions or as
guards. These poor people were
forced to do the bidding Of their
masters at the point of bayonet,
and they waited day and night for
the time when the democracies would
free them.
l have letters from many such
people, telling me that they are
still prisoners in concentration camps
while the real Nazis are being set
free and are laughing at their lot.
Yes, they are thankful for our food
and our clothes, but many of them
are wondering if their lot as dead
men would not have been better
than to live in constant fear and
uncertainty.
In all history, political refugees
nave been granted haven by any
civilized nation and were not sub
ject to deportation due to the de-
mands of a tyrant; yet 100000
people are granted quota of 387
persons per year to the United Sta
tes; at this rate, we'll save them
in 1000 years.