The Assembly of Captive European Nations came into being ten years ago. Its members are representative exiles from Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Rumania. It was intended to symbolize the hope of the East European peoples for eventual freedom from subjection to Moscow, to carry out activities that would preserve their national traditions, and to bring their hope of freedom to world attention.
The Assembly is an “affiliate”— more accurately, subsidiary — of the Free Europe Committee, best known for its operation of Radio Free Europe. Publicity for Radio Free Europe includes the phrase, “financed by private contributions,” and it is a fact that prominent corporations are expected to come through with contributions in the annual public drives. As all informed persons know, however, the Free Europe complex is politically controlled and financed in principal part by agencies of the U.S. Government.
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