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Message of President Harry S. Truman on june 14, 1952.

Message of President Harry S. Truman on june 14, 1952.

On the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of the lawless invasion of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union, I send you warm greetings. The Government and the people of the United States feel instinctive and profound sympathy for the enslaved people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Coupled with revulsion at the acts of the occupying power, whose forcible incorporation of the Baltic States we have never recognised, we pay tribute to the determined endeavours of the diplomatic and other representatives of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on behalf of their homelands. We shall not forget our Baltic friends. We extend through you to them wherever they may be our heartfelt hope that they may have the fortitude and the patience to live through the grinding tyranny now imposed upon them and to enjoy once again independence and freedom within the community of free nations.

Harry S. Truman

Source:
Current News on the Lithuanian Situation. Lithuanian Legation, Washington, D. C., Sept.-Oct. 1952. Vol. IX. cit� dans American Latvian Association in The United States, Lettonie, en com-m�moration du 50�me anniversaire de la D�claration d'Ind�pendance de la R�publique de Lettonie , Washington D.C., 1968, p.71.