Evening star., 1952-06-13
Iron Curtain ExiIes Sign Pledge
OF Freedom at WILLIAMSBURG

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Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithu-
ania. Poland, Romania and Yugo-
slavia took part in a solemn cere-
mony yesterday commemorating
the 10th anniversary of the sign
ing of the Virginia Bill of Rights.
They vowed to adhere to its basic
principles.
Adopted Principles.
The leaders pledged themselves
to principles such as these:
The right to public judicial pro-
ceedings: protection from the
suspension or enactment of laws
without the consent of the gov
Ierned; the rights of life. liberty
and property: the guarantee that
governmental powers are derived
from the people and the govern
ments are subject to recall.
The Williamsburg declaration
pledges the exiled leaders to pro-
pose to their nations, in the event
of liberation, the incorporation OF
the principles of the declaration
in future constitutions of their
countrieS.
I'VE pledge" says the declara-
ton, that tyranny over the mind
of man shall be abolished from
our countries-tyranny of any
minority clique over the majority,
or tyranny of the majority over
the minorities.
Pledge Liberty Under Law.
"We pledge that rule by terror
will be replaced by liberty under
law, and that the principles and
freedoms enumerated above will
become the foundation of govern
Iment Of the people, for the people
land by the people. Man, and not
1.-THE state, is the true measure of
progress, and the form of political,
social and economic organizations
shall be chosen by the people in
Isuch manner that an order of
social justice will be established.
| I'VE pledge that the right of
lprivate ownership Of land shall be
restored and that land and other
property taken from the peasants
flor collectivization shall be given
back to those who till the land.
ICo-operatives and other forms of
association, voluntarily entered
Into by the peasants for economic
lends, shall be free from govern
ment interference.
Free and independent volun-
tary trade unions and labor or
Examinations shall be the guardians
of workers rights and interests.
The workers shall be free to choose
their employment and places
where they wish to live and work.
The rights and dignity of the
worker shall be truly protected,
land his opportunities for social
land economic progress. including
the right to ownership of property,
lShall be inviolate."
Addressed by Donzelot.
Among the speakers was Pierre
IDonzelot, director general of higher
education in France, who said the
Williamsburg gathering, expressing
the determination to stand for
principles of liberty, would be COM
lforting to all free men.
Participants in the ceremony in
lcluded:
| DR.. Adolfs Blodnieks, former
Prime Minister of the Republic
Iof Latvia; Grigore Fafencu, for
inner foreign minister of Romania; !;
lNikola Balabanoff, former Bull
Igarian minister plenipotentiary to
France and Czechoslovakia: DR..
lMiha Krek, former vice premier
land parliament member in Yugo-
lslavia; Vaclovas Sidzikauskas, for
mer Lithuanian minister to Swift
lzerland, Austria, Hungary, Eng
land and Holland; Stefan Osusky,
former Czechoslovak Ambassador
to France; DR.. Leonhard Vahter
former member of the Estonian
parliament; Nuci Kotta, son of
former Prime Minister Koca Kotta
of Albania, who was killed by the
Communists; and Msgr. Bella
Varga, former speaker of the Hun
lgarian parliament.