Brivais Laveitis, November 15, 1948

              Bounalaeies
for the f i g h t against Com-munists,
not agäinst the
Western d e in o c r a c l e s •
ihus upon the cbllapse of
Germany there were over
150.000 Latvtans i n Germany
and A u s t r i a . ihis part of
the nation met the Western
Alliesgeveralthousands of
thero escaped to Denmark and
Sweden. Araong them are
s c i e n t i s t s , educational and
culturail wbrfcers, lawyers,
doctors, tbachers, clerks,
p f f i c e workers, i n d u s t t i al
workers, farmers, contractoi;^
and students.
ihe r e s t pf the people are
'enjoying; the r e p e t i t i on
of 1940/41 years * happen-ings.
jivery day there are t r a i n s
r o l l i n g with deported p e r -
sons to a l i parts of Russi^
ahe deported are replaced
by Soviet c i t l z e n s , who are
even giyen surnämes of the
deported Latvian persons.
«obody in the world seems
to be w i l t i n g to hear t h e ir
desparate cry f o r help*
- In s p i t e of the grand worc|
of the A t l a n t i c Cljarter one
nation a f t e r another haye
been suppressed by force ,•
and the pr i nc i p l e s e xpressed,
i n the Charter were insolert
l y ignbred. Esthonia, Latvl^i
and L i t h u a n i a have been l o i^
since annexed by the Russian
empire, being bound to
experience a l i the atrocities
of roass slave camps and
l i o u i d a t i o n of "bourgeoisfel
rhese statements made by a
member of the B r i t i s h P a r -
liaroent are by no means meie
phrases. Every single C i ­t
i z e n of the i i a l t i c States
i s able to produce any
amount of evidence to proTe
the truth of them. And e vei
when, due to the cowardnesj^
and blindness of the World,,
the a n n i h i l d t i o n of our
people would be t o t a l ly
accomplished, and no Lat -
vian, Lithuanian, and E s t o ­nian
be l e f t a l i v e i n t h e ir
countries, and the world at
l a s t would comprehend that
I t is not s u f f i c i e n t to
preach huroanity only, but
that i t must a l s o be fought
f o r , even then the survivlng
members of these nations
w i l l never be s i l e n t , but
w i l l draw the w o r l d , s atten-tlori
to these facts again
and again.
TO serve the aböve purpose
t h i s roaterial here, glving
account of the Gommunists
;haH been cpnipiled.
Arnolds Chuibe, Director of School Departement.
t h i s t r e a t i s e,
xAit nevertheless the t r u th
of these most i n c r i m i n a t i ng
fact^ can be c e r t l f i ed
every ualt.
Over the period of the Soviet occupatiori
the Latviap nation lost 34.250 of its- mem-hers,:
i . e. 2 % of the total number of the
irthabitants, which, for exanaple, for Eng­land
(ivithout Dominions) would mean a
loss öf 571.670, or för thie U.S.A. a loss of
1.637.706 peonle.
Warning to the Civilized World
We are'wcriting loi an intöinatiönal action in; heh öf the promised
freedom and independence of the small nations. We are afroid, however,
lest help should come tdo late. Our best inen and our most couiageous
you may be dead then. We aie afiaid lest the civilized world should, ohly
be tolking, while what is happening heie in Latvia today may happen to.
the rest oi the woild tomorrov, the lule of criminals ovei ali that is sacred
and dedi to us: DIEVS. TAVA 2EME DEG - GOD. THY EARTH IS AFLAME."'
ööme of the reporters or
member8 öf t h e i r f a m i l i e s "
not yet being In -afety
from most c e r t a i n , bloödy
consequences^ of t h e i r honesb
and f ranlc s tatement s, the i r
name s had to be omiti ed in The refugee c a r t s j i l l e d the foadfi.