Appeal of the Captive Nations

On Human Rights Day (December 10) Mr. Vilis Masens of Latvia, Chairman of the Assembly of Captive European Nations, standing across from the United Nations Plaza, issued an appeal to world opinion of which we print the concluding section.

The captive nations want national independence, that is an end to Soviet military occupation, open or disguised, and of Soviet rule. They want bread—meaning an end to the misery of ex-ploitation for the benefit of the S oviet war machine. Above all, they want freedom, that is the restoration of full political liberty and human rights, and the unhindered exercise of their inalienable right to choose freely the government under which they want to live.

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On Human Rights Day (December 10) Mr. Vilis Masens of Latvia, Chairman of the Assembly of Captive European Nations, standing across from the United Nations Plaza, issued an appeal to world opinion of which we print the concluding section.

The captive nations want national independence, that is an end to Soviet military occupation, open or disguised, and of Soviet rule. They want bread—meaning an end to the misery of ex-ploitation for the benefit of the S oviet war machine. Above all, they want freedom, that is the restoration of full political liberty and human rights, and the unhindered exercise of their inalienable right to choose freely the government under which they want to live.