LETTER
LETTERS Only the West Can Free Oppressed of the East From P. DAILIDE (Former Minister of Lithuania) BSsHDES RUSSIA,, the Bolsheviks today hold enslaved more than 110 million people in Europe...
...Broadway, ffraslssyaj Boris Nioolayevky, Josiah A. Yftlaissr and Saul Levitas...
...In order for partisan activities to develop into a serious revolt, the partisans are in need of greater territorial organization and more weapons...
...Therefore, only the Soviet Union can benefit from such ideas, while only politically immature isolationists can support them...
...And if not one nation has won freedom itself from the Bolshevik yoke under such circumstances, than it was only because necessary conditions are not present under occupation conditions...
...Algernon Lee, moderator...
...The Western Democracies, having justified World War II on the principles of the Atlantic Charter, cannot now feel that they achieved their aim...
...Sunday, March 27,1M p. m.: Dinner to David A. Eiaenberg...
...The Communists often cut the threads of such an organization, and the partisans do not always succeed in procuring weapons...
...Social Democratic Youth: Business meeting, Tuesday, March 8, 8 p. m„ at the Rand School...
...The occupying authorities have no pity for the people, shoot them by the thousands, and by the tens ot thousands drive them in cattle cars or on foot to slave labor camps in Siberia or the Urals...
...Councilman Louis P. Goldberg, and Morris Waldman.—Friday, March 11, at the W. C. Center, 7309 20th Ave., Brooklyn...
...The free world of today is gradually coming to the conclusion that the unusual growth of the Bolshevik horror was brought about by exactly the errors of the democracies in not recognizing the true face of Bolshevism and the easy surrendering to its out rages...
...Celebration of the 7Sth Birthday of Algernon Lee: Public concert, Hunter College, April 10...
...Tickets availabe at the City Office, 7 East 15th St., New York City...
...Upper West Side Bjranchi Meeting, Tuesday, March 8, 8:15 p. m., at Sophie Turbow's...
...LETTERS Only the West Can Free Oppressed of the East From P. DAILIDE (Former Minister of Lithuania) BSsHDES RUSSIA,, the Bolsheviks today hold enslaved more than 110 million people in Europe and Alia...
...Auspices of Bensonhurst Branch, S.D.F...
...William Karlia Branch: Cocktail and Card* Party, Sunday, March 6, 5 p. m., at the Rutes, 840 Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn...
...lfil West 75th St., New York City...
...Western civilization is being wrecked in large areas, and Asiatic Bolshevism, supported by terrorism, is entrenching itself in its place...
...Anyone who knows even slightly the conditions under Russian occupation cannot answer thii question any other way except in th< negative...
...Samuel M NeuUedi, Sunday, Match 0, 5:30 p. m., at the W. C. Lyceum, IMS E. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md...
...end that the nations which are enslaved 'by the Russians should liberate themselves...
...Communist totalitarianism would become bolder and would constitute a direct menace to the freedom of the Western Democracies...
...That is why public opinion is beginning more and more to demand that the mistakes of the war years he corrected...
...Besides this, they often have to be satisfied with light weapons,,while the MVD units |iunt them down with tanks and bombers, bombard them with cannons of all calibre, sometimes using even flamethrowers and mine throwers...
...World opinion cannot recognize the exchange of one slavery for another—and even more horrible—slavery as a victory for democracy...
...Boston...
...Morally, the Western Democracies cannot abandon the nations, enslaved by the Bolsheviks, if for no other reason then because these nations ore today enslaved because of the mistakes of the democracies during the war...
...NEW YOUJC city "Roads to Freedom*' Forum, Station WEVD, March IS, 10 p. m. Topic: "The Third Force in Europe...
...Freedom can be secured by the occupied nations, without outside help, when the foundations of the Bolshevik government begin to crumble...
...at Hotel Bradford...
...Speakers: Leon Dennen and Alfred Braunthal...
...Speakers: Algernon Lee, Councilman Louis P. Goldberg, Frank Cortale, and Julia P. Shainblum...
...B. C vlatfeck Forum, Sunday, 11 a in, at 17ft last Broadway...
...Testimonial Album is being issued...
...Speakers: J. Pat, B. Tebachinsky, heroine of Warsaw ghetto, and Shano Cryspao...
...Leaving aside the moral and political arguments there is still another fundamental question which must be faced: can the Russian-occupied nations, without any outside help, liberate themselves...
...From the theoretical side, nothing can be said against such an idea...
...Speakers: Leon Dennen, Judge Samuel Orr, Councilman Ira Palestin...
...New West Bronx Forum opens Friday, ciudjnuhn of tm:Jwlfge1m bepsetaasmt sf ifsfiha ftstssgu' March li, $M p. hl, at tgwCosweurse Manor, Grand Comtttyao eajrfjtornsiee Ave----Battels* Fes** March' 11, 8 p. m-, at the WIsWlill jtotel 100th Si and...
...Twelve more European ttatea are now being aovietized as a consequence of World War II...
...If the "iron curtain" should be lifted and the people could freely leave the Soviet Union, only a handful would remain...
...Social and Card Party, Friday, March 4, 8:30 p. mi., at the Rand School...
...That is why, in speaking of correcting the mistakes made by the democracies during the war, we inevitably face the question of the liberation of the Sovietenslaved states...
...But in practice, it shows an ignorance of the conditions of Soviet occupation and a total denial of responsibility for • the fate of enslaved nations, which is not justifiable on either moral or political grounds...
...Women's Committee...
...PERHAPS THE GREATEST mistake was the concession to the Bolsheviks oi a large part of Europe, with the hopethat after the war ended they would withdraw from these countries...
...That is why in practice the activities of the partisans, having some nuisance value, cannot bring freedom of the enslaved nations as long as the partisans do not receive aid from outside...
...New York, N. Y. SDF Ntty* Dr...
...Politically, the western Democracies would demonstrate their weakness and would lo.se their allies in the free vorld, if they should leave these countries to their fate...
...Public Meeting" De Witt Clinton High School, Mosholu Parkway, near Jerome Ave., Friday, March 4, 8:30 p. m. Topic: "Is Communism Preparing for World War III...
...But where are there any sign of such crumbling1 Only a strong pressure of a diplomatic or military nature from the outside, and sufficient support for the resistance movements in the occupied countries, can restore liberty to the enslaved nations, the necessary respect lor the Atlantic Charter and a clear conscience for the democracies...
...MaaM August Claeaterii tit the Dorchester Forum, Sunday, March BV 11 aim., Workmen's Circle Center...
...Modern war technique has devised such methods of destruction that even the largest mass of people proves to be powerless before them without the appropriate means for defense...
...III A NEWLY-SEIZED country th< Russians keep large garrisons of troops stationed throughout the territory guard all of the important points da> and night and strictly control all traffic while the MVD immediately seizes and liquidates leaders ot the resistance keeping the inhabitants in constant feat of arrest...
...LIVING CONDITIONS under the Comnumists are so terrible that thousands of people risk their lives just to escape to freedom...
...Send, greetings immediately...
...Among the possibilities of settling this problem the press of the United States sometimes raises the idea that "the freedom of a nation should in the first place be its own primary concern...
Vol. 32 • March 1949 • No. 10
