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© 1956 Lithuanian
Students Association, Inc.
No.2(7)
- June 1956
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LITHUANIAN AFFAIRS IN THE AMERICAN
PRESS
Prepared by L. VALIUKAS
Cyprus
and Lithuania
We hear "colonialism" denounced by unthinking spokesmen in America of
various causes and groups who parrot the Communist line on the same
-subject.
Eighteen United States Senators
called last week for the liberation of Cyprus from British rule, but
the same Senators are not so solicitous about those who once had their
independence and now have been deprived of it by the Communists
— the people of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East
Germany, Bulgaria, Rumania, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
—David
Lawrence, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, March 23, 1956.
Holy
Lithuanian Prelate
Clarendon Hills, 111.—Marian Fathers are praying for the
cause of a holy Lithuanian prelate, Archbishop George
Matulaitis-Matuleviiius, who revived their community when it had
dwindled to a single member because of Russian suppression.
As Bishop of Vilnius, the prelate
suffered Communist interference in the days after World War I. He
visited the United States twice, the last time in 1926, the year before
his death. A number of cures have been attributed to his intercession.
His cause was introduced in 1953. A delegate of the General Postulator
is the Rev. Casimir A. Matulaitis, M.I.C., Marian Hills Seminary,
Clarendon Hills, 111.
—THE REGISTER,
Denver, Colo., Feb. 12, 1956
Did
anyone cheer?
When the Russians talk to the peoples of Asia, then they pose as
anti-imperialists and anti-coloni-alists.. But they give themselves
away sometimes. I saw the other day a quotation from the Moscow radio.
It said, "The Soviet Union has always been on the side of peoples
fighting for their national independence."
I wonder if anyone was listening to
that in Lithuania or Latvia or Estonia. Did it strike an answering
chord in Rumania, Bulgaria or Albania? Did anyone cheer in Hungary,
Czechoslovakia or Poland?
—Selwyn Lloyd,
British Foreign Secretary, THE TIDINGS, Los Angeles, Calif., February
10, 1956
Lithuanians
Rebel in Mines
STOCKHOLM - Revolts have broken out again in Soviet forced-labor camps.
A report compiled by a Latvian, Dr. Adams Slide, involved interviews with hundreds who have been in recent contact with Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians held in the camps.
Inmates, led chiefly by Baits, went
on hunger strikes and blocked work in coal mines.
prepared by L. VALIUKAS
The Russians were rorced to improve
food rations, permit more religious freedom and let the prisoners
receive packages and letters.
—THE DETROIT FREE
PRESS, Feb. 20, 1956
Life
under Communists
And there was a Lithuanian, Vaclovas. He returned to his Baltic
homeland from Buenos Aires on the strength of Communist returnee
propaganda. To Lithuanian refugees still in Argentina ,he wrote:
"Things are marvelous. I have a good job as a chemist. I advise you to come back too. But before you do, be sure to buy the proper type of trunk at Lazaro Costa's store in Buenos Aires."
The "trunks" in which Lazaro Costa
deals ar; coffins.
—NEWSWEEK,
March 12, 1956
A
Murderer oi Thousands
NEW YORK, March 28 (AP)—Army Gen. Ivan Alexandrovich Serov,
who has been called an "odius thug," a "jackal" and a "murderer" by the
British press during his visit to Britain, is a veteran Soviet police
officer whom Nikita Khrushchev trusts.
Documents captured during the war
show it was Serov who signed an order just before the German attack in
June 1941 on the procedure for deportation of Anti-Soviet elements from
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Under this order thousands of Baltic
citizens were exiled to Siberia.
—Tom Whitney,
THE LOS ANGELES HERA! ;> & EXPRESS, March 28, 1956
Refugees
"meet" Malenkov
As reported last week, the only public demonstia-tion against Malenkov
came from an emigre group of former Red colonials. These refugees
staged a dignified protest the way the Poles and Lithuanians did here
in Los Angeles last year during the Red commissars' visit.
(The Communist press, you will
recall, called tne local demonstrators "drunken hooligans.")
—Paul Burton,
THE TIDJNGS, Los Angeles, Calif., March 30, 1956 .
Freedom
ior Baltic States?
Watch for a fullblown campaign by the State Department to exploit the
Communist confusion over Stalin. State may soon ask about such
Stalin-Inspired actions as the grab of Baltic republics and changes in
Polish borders1; may even try to force Russia to admit Stalin ordered"
the shocking Katyn massacre in Poland.
—NEWSWEEK,
April 2, 1956