LETTER FROM MESSRS. KARI, SUMANAS, GENYS AND MEIEROVICS OF THE JOINT BALTIC AMERICAN COMMITTEE TO HON. DANTE B. FASCELL, DATED JUNE 16, 1975, ENCLOSING RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE BALTIC FORUM AT UPSALA COLLEGE IN NEW JERSEY THE JOINT BALTIC AMERICAN COMMITTEE, Rockville, Md., June 16, 1975. Hon. DANTE B. FASCELL, DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: The enclosed resolution adopted by the Baltic Forum, which was held at Upsala College in New Jersey June 6-8, 1975, is provided for your information and positive action. Please inform us when we can expect action in the Subcommittee on the House resolution pertaining to the Baltic States and the European Security Conference. Sincerely, MAIDO KARI, Chairman, Joint Baltic American Committee. Public Relations Director, Joint Baltic American Committee. Lithuanian American Council. American Latvian Association. RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE BALTIC FORUM AT UPSALA COLLEGE, EAST ORANGE, N.J., JUNE 8, 1975 Whereas close to 100 members of the House have introduced resolutions (i.e. House Concurrent Resolutions 3 and 11) which directs that "the United States delegation to the European Security Conference should not agree to the recognition by the European Security Conference of the Soviet Union's annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and it should remain the policy of the United States not to recognize in any way the annexation of the Baltic nations by the Soviet Union." Whereas the Subcommittee on International Political and Military Affairs has held hearings pertaining to the European Security Conference and the resolutions on the Baltic States: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Baltic Forum, held at Upsala College in New Jersey June 6-8, 1975, urges and requests that you make a motion to have the resolutions acted and voted upon in the Subcommittee, thus giving an opportunity for the House to act on the resolution and we urge that it be acted upon favorably. LETTER FROM PETER ATKOCIUNAS, D.D.S., PRESIDENT, CICERO CHAPTER OF LITHUANIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL INC., TO HON. DANTE B. FASCELL, DATED JUNE 18, 1975 Hon. DANTE B. FASCELL, LITHUANIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL, INC., Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, Cicero, Ill., June 18, 1975. DEAR CONGRESSMAN: Americans of Lithuanian descent of metropolitan Chicago, at a special meeting held June 8, 1975, commemorated with sorrow the deaths by torture, the massacres and the deportations of their nationals in 1940 and 1941. Also, they remembered that these atrocities, leading to national extermination, were performed by the communists of the Soviet Union, which, following the treaty between Stalin and Hitler, brought its army and large secret police force into Lithuania. Those present at this meeting were willing to aid the country of their descendants and resolved to remind the President of The United States of America, the Secretary of State and the Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Political and Military Affairs of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, that the tendency of the Department of State to recognize Lithuania's annexation to the Soviet Union as "status quo" does not have any judicial ground or moral reason; the commerce and cooperation in other fields between the United States and the Soviet Union are inexcusable, because the Soviets do not aid the people of the oppressed countries in the Soviet Union; instead, the commerce and cooperation are being used by the Soviets for greater oppression of the subjugated people and to completely put down their hope for freedom. Also, the participants of this meeting unanimously agreed to: (A) ask the President of the United States of America to encourage the U.S. delegation to the European Security and Cooperation Conference that the delegation should (1) not agree to making lawful the annexation of Lithuania, (2) demand the Soviet Union to retreat its armed forces and commissaries from Lithuania and other oppressed countries and (3) demand free elections in those oppressed countries under the supervision of an International Committee, and (B) ask the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs that positive, undelayed action be attained for the Resolutions/Congr. E. J. Derwinski's Res. 165 and Sen. C. T. Curtis's Res. 29/ concerning the annexation of the Baltic countries to the Soviet Union. Sincerely yours, PETER ATKOCIUNAS, D.D.S., Chairman of the Meeting and President. (52) |