Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-14
SPIRES or THE SPIRIT
We Hold These Truths
BY DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRI
Chaplain az the United states Senate

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ended the President of the
United States has been seen
and heard across free Eu-
rope. To wild throngs Of
cheering Europeans his prem
Use was that liberty is in
Invisible. His promise was
that at any risk to our
selves we would hurl the full
force of cur might against
any fresh aggression by to-
talitarianism to enslave more
people with its letters Of the
mind and body.
But, is there any ray of
hope for the captives Of a
diabolical conspiracy whose
shackles bind more people
than the President saw on
his trip across the free from
tiers Of the continent? What
word has America in answer
to the agonizing pleading Of
Poland, East Germ any,
zechoslovakia, Bulgaria. Ru-
mania, Lithuania, Latvia, Es-
tonia, Hungary, and the Uk-
raine, deep in the Soviet land
mass? If upon the high hea-
vens could be written the
CHASTITY tale Of liquidation,
martyrdoms, sudden deporta-
tons to the frozen steppes,
the genocidal destruction Of
national roots which the con-
quest Of each Of these SUBJ
dued nations involved in all
their sadistic details, 1t would
suggest a chamber Of horrors
to make devils gleeful and
angels weep.
Should comfortable Amer
lea ever forget all this and
acquiesce in admitting the
bloodStained culprits to the
realms Of decency, such for
getting would but register
the lowering Of our own Re-
public's moral SenSitivity and
the dulling Of its conscience.
The one sure criterion of the
reality Of our own commit
ment to freedom is the agony
we feel for those who are
under a foreign taskmaster's
lash. That is why America
insists on uncovering the
damning truth in Captive
Nations Week. It is the &C
cursed spot which will not
out that the bandits desire
the world to dismiss with,
"Oh, let bygones be bygones,"
as knocking on the door Of
moral integrity they now
seek the recognition Of res
probability. There is no more
essential proposition now be-
fore the Congress than House
Res. IA. The passage of this
bill would run UP to the
masthead of our own ship of
state a flag of aggravating
remembrance and defiance
against the pirates who now
seek an approved harbor
with their ship laden with
all the plumber secured by
shocking inhumanity, mis-
cry and murder. Such action
by the Congress Of the United
States would tell the world
that with us liberty is not q
dead fossil but a living thing
incarnated in the so United
States!
Nothing Is more vital than
our assurance to the whole
world that we still hold GER
tain unalienable truths-yea,
that they hold us! What Is
this eternal truth we hold? It
is that rights are given, not
by any State but by the Crea-
tor, and that the just powers
of government are derived
only by the consent of the
governed. Let us look at per-
haps the most blatant be-
trayal Of this principle-that
of the crucifixion of Hungary.
Ever since the brave freedom
fighters were moved down by
the thousands by Soviet tanks
in the streets Of Budapest, we
have insisted on keeping I'M
yelled the hideous scenes Of
the vile slaughter on that day
of Red infamy and the ven