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United States
of A m e r i c a
NOV
4 1942
Congressional Htcord
PROCEEDINGS
A N D DEBATES
OF T H E 77'^
CONGRESS, SECOND
SESSION
Massacre of the C^ech People
SPEECH
HON. KARL STEFAN
OF NEBRASKA
I N T H E HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday,
June
11,1942
Mr. S T E F A N .
M r . C h a i r m a n , your
newspapers this m o r n i n g told y o u of the
m a s s a c r e of L i d i c e . Yesterday we h a d
w i t h u s a n u m b e r of A m e r i c a n s w h o h a v e
been i n t e r n e d i n Europe.
T h e i r stories
c o n f i r m o u r fears regarding t h e d e t e r m i n a t i o n of t h e N a z i s to e n s l a v e fre6 p e o ple.
T h e i r stories c o n f i r m t h e reports
o f t h e b l o o d y c a m p a i g n of t h e l a t e R e i n h a r d H e y d r i c h — t h e terrorist w h o h a s
b e e n r e s p o n s i b l e f o r t h e m u r d e r s of h u n dreds of Czechs a n d m a n y
Germans.
A l t h o u g h H e y d r i c h is d e a d t h e p r o g r a m
of m u r d e r o f C z e c h p e o p l e h a s b r o k e n
out a g a i n w i t h even greater d i a b ^ i c a l
fury.
T h e A s s o c i a t e d Press story f r o m L o n d o n r e a c h i n g u s t o d a y t e l l i n g of W e d n e s d a y ' s m a s s a c r e of t h e C z e c h s i n L i d i c e i s
a horrible confirmation of the terror
p r o g r a m w h i c h s being c o n t i n u e d against
these people.
T h e s t o r y is a l e a f t o r n
out o f t h e D a r k A g e s .
L i d i c e was a v i l l a g e o f n e a r l y 500 h a r d - w o r k i n g . G o d f e a r i n g , p a t r i o t i c people.
It w a s l o c a t e d
a b o u t 40 m i l e s west of P r a g u e .
The
V~cz£ tells u s i,Iic ahno-st
unbelievable
s t o r y of h o w a l l o f t h e m e n of t h a t v i l lage were executed; h o w t h e w o m e n were
r e m o v e d to gome u n k n o w n locality; a n d
h o w t h e c h i l d r e n were r e m o v e d t o s o m e
place.
T h e village
was entirely d e stroyed. T h i s horrible act confirms our
belief t h a t t h e Nazis h a v e c o n c e n t r a t e d
on a deliberate a n d premeditated p r o g r a m t o w i p e o u t e n t i r e l y a l l of t h e C z e c h
intelligence; all C z e c h culture, a n d especially to destroy those great inspirations
a n d aspirations for w h i c h the Czech peop l e h a v e f o u g h t f o r h u n d r e d s of y e a r s .
T o P r e s i d e n t B e n e s ; to M i n i s t e r M a s a r y k , a n d t h o s e C z e c h officials w h o a r e
c l i n g i n g strongly to keep together t h e
exiled C z e c h G o v e r n m e n t comes the task
to i n f o r m t h e C h r i s t i a n w o r l d of w h a t
is h a p p e n i n g t o t h e i r p e o p l e .
W e know
t h a t t h e C z e c h people will continue to
follow t h e i n s p i r a t i o n of their leaders to
keep i l l u m i n a t e d the spirit of freedom i n
spite of the fact t h a t t o d a y they live i n
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fear a n d i n slavery u n d e r t h e yoke of
oppressors.
M r . C h a i r m a n , the dead Heydrich beg a n h i s c a r e e r b y t a k i n g a s h i s first v i c t i m s his o w n fellow c o u n t r y m e n , w h o
loved liberty more t h a n they loved H i t l e r .
H e y d r i c h headed the terror campaign
against all t h e people i n G e r m a n y w h o
opposed
h i m . H e was sent to c o n tinue his c a m p a i g n i n other oppressed
countries, ending his bloody activities i n
Prague.
T h e murders committed there
at h i s c o m m a n d have horrified t h e e n tire
Christian
world.
His
successor,
Delauge, already has a bloody record. H e
is t h e t e r r o r i s t w h o h e l p e d t o a s s a s s i n a t e
N a z i leaders i n G e r m a n y w h o h a d fallen
out w i t h H i t l e r i n t h e b l o o d p u r g e o f
1934.
M r . C h a i r m a n , t h e C z e c h people will
n e v e r give u p t h e i r fight f o r f r e e d o m .
T h e s e bloody p r o g r a m s will never s u c c e e d . T h e list of n a m e s o f C z e c h s w h o
h a v e g i v e n u p t h e i r lives i n t h e c a u s e
o f l i b e r t y is a v e r y l a r g e o n e . T h e h i s t o r y of C z e c h s w h o h a v e f o u g h t f o r l i b e r t y a l l over t h e w o r l d w i l l n e v e r be f o r gotten.
T h e Czech spirit a n d the C z e c h
d e t e r m i n a t i o n f o r l i b e r t y c a n n e v e r be
k i l l e d by t h e h a n g m e n
or the
firing
squads.
I n s t e a d of m a k i n g t h e m s e l v e s
stronger i n occupied countries by killing
a n d killing, the Nazis are merely instilling a stronger determination into their
v i c t i m s t r fight o n u n t i l f r e e d o m c o m e s
back to t h e m again.
I a m sure t h a t I speak for millions of
A m e r i c a n people w h e n I say t h a t t h e
h e a r t s o f m i l l i o n s of A m e r i c a n p e o p l e
are bleeding today, a n d that they send
w o r d of d e e p s y m p a t h y a c r o s s t h e seas
t o t h e i r C z e c h allies i n t h i s h o u r of t h e i r
great suffering.
I a m sure millions of
A m e r i c a n people w a n t these brave C z e c h
p e o p l e to k n o w t h a t t h e i r A m e r i c a n allies
are d e t e r m i n e d t h a t t h e i r sufferings w i l l
be a v e n g e d a n d t h a t t h e f r e e d o m f o r
w h i c h t h e y so b r a v e l y fight w i l l be r e t u r n e d to t h e m .
M r . C h a i r m a n , i t is c e r t a i n n o w t h a t
the N a z i s have selected t h e C z e c h race
for complete e x t e r m i n a t i o n .
T h e reco r d s we n o w h a v e i n d i c a t e t h a t t h e
C z e c h s h a v e b e e n selected f o r f a m i l y e x termination. A horrible campaign which
h a s n o t yet come to o u r a t t e n t i o n f r o m
other countries o c c u p i e d by these o p p r e s sors.
I give y o u h e r e a c o n f i r m a t i o n o f
that campaign.
D u r i n g t h e first week o f e x e c u t i o n s , 21
families were m u r d e r e d by t h e Gestapo.
Families i n Lidice; town
destroyed;
males executed.
Nine families i n Prague.
E i g h t families i n B r n o .
T w o families i n R o k y c a n y .
T w o families i n eastern Bohemia.
T h e r e were three families
of f o u r
members
each
in Rokycany;
Vaclav
Stehlik, h i s wife R u r e n a , a n d their two
s o n s V a c l a v , 27, a n d F r a n t i s e k , 17 y e a r s
o l d . E x e c u t e d o n W e d n e s d a y , M a y 27.
In B r n o , Josef K o l a r i k , teacher; his
wife, J o s e f a ; t h e i r s o n , G e o r g e , a p h y s i cian; a n d their daughter-in-law, J a r o s l a v a , b o t h 26 y e a r s o l d . E x e c u t e d o n
S a t u r d a y , M a y 30.
In Prague,
J o s e f M i k u l a ; h i s wife,
T e r e s i e ; t h e i r s o n , Josef, 35; a n d d a u g h ter, B l a z e n a .
F o u r families of three members e a c h :
T h - e e i n B r n o , one i n L i t o m y s l .
F o u r t e e n f a m i l i e s of 2 m e m b e r s e a c h ,
among
them husband
a n d wife, 10;
m o t h e r a n d s o n , 1; f a t h e r a n d s o n , 2 ;
f a t h e r a n d d a u g h t e r , 1.
U p t o J u n e 4, 177 n a m e s w e r e a n n o u n c e d , a m o n g t h e m 32 w o m e n .
P r o m i n e n t intellectuals executed:
Di-. V l a d i s l a v V a n c u r a , a w e l l - k n o w n
C z e c h writer, at Prague.
D r . V i c t o r Pelber, professor
of the
Czechoslovak
I n s t i t u t e of T e c h n o l o g y ,
w i t h h i s s o n J u l i u s , 34 y e a r s o l d .
J u d r . B o h u m i r Hanosek, counselor of
the Czechoslovak M i n i s t r y of A g r i c u l ture.
Ing. K a r e l L u d v i k a n d D r . Josef T r c k a ,
directors of the cooperativa, a p u r c h a s i n g u n i t of t h e E c o n o m i c A s s o c i a t i o n .
R n d r . J a r o s l a v S t o r k a n , p r o f e s s o r of
zoologie a t t h e C h a r l e s U n i v e r s i t y a t
Prague.
J a n Mazanec, counselor of the M i n i s t r y
of Agriculture at Prague.
D r . L a d i s l a v R a s i n , s o n o f t h e first
C z e c h o s l o v a k M i n i s t e r of F i n a n c e s a n d a
m e m b e r of P a r l i a m e n t .
D r . B o h u m i l B a x a , professor of t h e law
faculty of M a s a r y k University at B r n o .
D r . J a r o m i r S a m a l , professor of the
College of Agriculture a n d Forestry E n g i neering.
What Heydrich did in Prague
M a n y of m y colleagues h a v e a s k e d f o r
information regarding the H e y d r i c h a c tivities i n Prague.
I n order to reply to
2
s o m e of t h e s e q u e s t i o n s I I n c l u d e h e r e
w i t h m y brief r e m a r k s a brief s u m m a r y
from E . V. Erdly's
report on Prague
B r a v e s the H a n g m a n :
Heydrich has introduced a new system of
penal Justice which sanctions every injustice
In advance and sets up a new k i n d of martial
law, the so-called civil martial law (Zivilstandrecht). He has brought under civil martial law offenses which only the day before
s t i l l fell w i t h i n the sphere of the ordinary
civil police and which—even in Nazi Germany
and even i n wartime were punished by fines
or moderate sentences of Imprisonment. To
punish these offenses, w h i c h incidentally,
were not legally defined (the measures prel i m i n a r i l y set out i n Heydrich's decree were
very vague and so were the grounds tor death
sentences passed), Heydrich created a new
k i n d of court formerly u n k n o w n i n the Czech
protectorate.
The civil summary court is
something new. It has never been stated
what are the qualifications of the Judges presiding i n these courts, whether they give their
verdicts alone or if there is a bench of Judges;
it Is not stated whether the accused is allowed
legal aid for his defense, whether he is i n formed of the charge before the t r i a l — a l l this
is left unsaid. It is merely decreed that the
names of the Judges, of the accused and the
most important witnesses for the prosecution, the action of which the prisoner is accused (and i n accordance with paragraph 2
this can be paraphrased i n a very vague fashion) , as well as the date of the verdict, should
be laid down i n writing. Such are i n the m a i n
the conditions for the recording of a police
protocol i n a civilized state where a mere
traffic offense or disturbance of the peace is
concerned. It is, however, characteristic of
the relationship of the Germans to the peoples
of their new Europe that almost the same
regulations were issued for the summary
courts which had to deal w i t h natives i n the
former German colonies i n Africa during the
first World War.
O n the other hand, Heydrich's decree defines precisely the type of Judgment that
must be passed by the civil summary court.
Apart from the death sentences and acquittal,
which are the normal findings of such courts,
there are two other types of punishment: the
complete or partial confiscation of property,
even i n a case i n which the accused is not
condemned to death, and further—and this
is even more characteristic of the new type
of German Justice—It provides for the complete handing over of the case to the secret
state police, 1. e., to an authority which is not
subject to any legal regulations and Is not
subordinate to any k i n d of control on the part
of any other authority or person, w i t h the
single exception of Adolf Hitler. I n other
words, accused persons against whom even
this infamous type of civil summary court,
which itself satisfies a bare m i n i m u m of the
necessary legal conditions for such a tribunal,
cannot find sutHcient evidence on which to
base a verdict, are handed over to an authority
which is able without regard for any formalities whatsoever to imprison them for life or
k i l l them out of hand.
A further legal monstrosity is the stipulat i o n that there is no appeal against the verdicts of the civil summary court. Even m i l i tary courts martial In wartime m u : t present
their decisions to the superior military
commander for his confirmation. Heydrich's civil court, situated a thousand miles
away from the nearest theater of war, can
decide on life and death without being subject to any control.
Heydrich's summary courts i n Prague and
Brno began to function on the morning of
September 28. Nothing is known about the
composition or the procedure of these socalled law courts, and the few Czechs who
had experience of them as the accused and
were acquitted by them have been careful
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not to tell anybody about their experience.
As the summary courts sit in the buildings
of the local Gestapo headquarters and they
are not bound to follow the normal regulations of criminal-law procedure, it is not
difficult to conclude that there is no question here of law courts i n the western sense
of the word, nor yet of any legal Justice at
all; rather are they a mere legalized form of
the brutal summary Justice of the Gestapo.
This conclusion is also strengthened by the
number of the accused on whom sentence is
passed daily. In 20 days of session [up to
October 31] the two summary courts "dealt"
w i t h 1,396 cases and passed 312 death sentences. That means 70 verdicts, on an average, daily, w i t h 15 to 16 death sentences and
no acquittals. There were, however, days
[September 30, October 1, 2, 3] when 315,
271, 131, and 141 verdicts were pronounced.
It is self-evident that there could be no question here of any civilized legal procedure.
Defense was not permitted. The accused
perhaps did not even know that their being
brought before a couple of S. S. officials i n
black uniform was a regular trial and not one
of the usual questionings. One may reconstruct the course of the " h e a r i n g " from the
evidence of those who have undergone the
hell of the Gestapo proceedings as follows:
The accused were brought into the courtroom i n groups. The Gestapo officials sat at
a long table. One of them read the names
of the accused, each of whom had to state
his presence w i t h a loud "Here." That was
enough to establish the identity of each i n dividual accused. Then the statement on
the basis of which the accused had been
arrested was read by the Gestapo agent. The
accused was asked whether the statement
was correct, and had to say either yes or no.
In the first case his guilt was confirmed
beyond doubt. If he dared to say no, or tried
to offer any explanation, an account of the
hearing concerning h i m , or any other prisoner
accused together with h i m , was read.
Should there be no such account to hand,
the Gestapo agent who had dealt w i t h the
case was asked whether the accusation was
correct. His answer was always i n the affirmative, for the accusation was, of course, n o t h i n g but a verbal repetition of his own report
to the Gestapo station. By this the accusat i o n was proved and the giving of the evidence closed. There may have been individual
cases when the accused were confronted w i t h
one another so that they should incriminate
each other. In agreement w i t h the practice
of the Gestapo, fictitious statements of persons deceased or executed shortly before were
brought forward as i n c r i m i n a t i n g material.
The German magistracy has always a greater
f a i t h i n an official document t h a n i n the
protest of the suspect, and a report made
by a police officer—and even more a so-called
account of the hearing by two police officials—Is an official document.
Thus, the fate of the accused was generally
sealed. Scarcely 3 i n 200 accused people
were acquitted—not a suigle one of the socalled political and military c r i m i n a l s — b u t
they were, almost without exception, market
women, f r u i t sellers, aged men; viz., people
who had committed a trlfiing offense against
orders about prices or registration and whom
one could not, even w i t h the worst i l l w i l l ,
condemn, or those who normally would have
been charged a fine of a couple of pence, if
that, or those who were brought before the
court as a result of the bad temper of a
market policeman, on account of the gossip
of malicious neighbors, or i n consequence of
the Jealousy of competitors.
The official German reports from the very
beginning revealed serious contradictions as
to the proceedings of the summary courts
established by Heydrich's decree. Summary
courts have usually been set up to deal w i t h
emergency situations as quickly as possible.
German official circles asserted that a con-
spiracy had been discovered which recently
endeavored to separate the Czecho Protectorate from the Eeich, B u t how could the
Generals Bel^' and Vojta, who have been for
more t h a n 18 months in a Gestapo prison,
threaten the security of the German Reich?
How could it be threatened by the Communist Deputy Otto Synek, who was arrested
actually on September 1, 1939, the day on
which the German war w i t h Poland began?
Or by the Brno University Professor Vladimir
Groh, who was arrested 9 months before
on February 6, 1941? How could the Prague
mayor. Dr. Klapka, commit treason himself,
and how could he convict Prime Minister
EliaS of subversive activity when he had
been i n prison since J u l y 9, 1940, 1. e., for
14 months? These facts were generally
known to the Czech public and the Prague
paper Ceske Slovo was chosen by Heydrich
to deal w i t h the unspoken questions asked
by them.
"The uninformed public may well ask why
people are now being sentenced who have
previously been under arrest for long periods," wrote the paper on October 19
"The
reply to this," i t continued, '^is that irrefuta-^
ble evidence of their offense has^Vnly now
been secured."
The verdict might be pronounced Immediately after the bogus giving of evidence.
There is every reason to assume that the
decision of the summary court Judges, whom
Heydrich brought w i t h h i m from the Reich,
had been made before the trial began. In
accordance w i t h the German mentality, those
Judges made a sadistic difference between the
methods of execution, which were announced
together with the verdicts.
In their opinion, i t is more honorable to
be shot than to be hanged. Therefore, they
sentenced to be shot, as a rule, such victims
whose alleged crime had to do with any political or military activity, while the peasants,
workers, and trades people, and especially
those of Jewish extraction, were to be hanged.
(The Jews are always described expressly, in
addition to their names, as Jews, or halfJews, according to the Nuremburg racial
laws.)
After the death sentence was pronounced
the condemned had only a few minutes more
to live. The Gestapo are not sentimental,
and the New Order of National Socialism is
very far indeed from seeing a h u m a n being
i n an enemy, especially an enemy sentenced
to immediate death. The verdicts were carried out at once by the Gestapo hangmen,
and it is not known, so far, whether the condemned had any opportunity of writing a few
words of farewell to their relatives. In no
single case was there any hope of a personal
farewell. The relations did not know where
the prisoners were. Moreover, nobody is a l lowed to enter a Gestapo b u i l d i n g unless he
has received a written summons or is taken
there as a prisoner himself.
The executions were carried out i n the
court b u i l d i n g itself. The condemned men
awaiting their t u r n could hear the firing and
see the gallows. The sentence of death by
shooting is not carried out under the Nazis
by a party of 4 to 12 men, but 2 S. S. men
shoot the condemned in a corner. The hanging, too, is cariied out by S. S. men. This
infamous task falls to young boys, none of
whom can rise to a higher rank u n t i l i n his
conduct paper a certain number of legal murder are entered (executions, k i l l i n g fugitives,
causing death through energetic examination,
etc.).
Besides the verdict of death, there were
more t h a n three times as many verdicts of
being handed over to the Gestapo. This is
also a new expression i n the G e r m a n legalistic
phraseology.
The people of the Czech Protectorate—the
parents, children, and wives of the executed
and of those condemned to the Gestapo's
treatment—learned the names, though not
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all the names, first through the broadcast o l
the Prague radio and on the following morning from the daily papers. The Gestapo i n troduced an especially cruel method i n a n nouncing the sentences; they gave only a
certain number of names at a time, while the
rest of the victims were referred to i n a round
figure, as if the activities of a slaughterhouse were being recorded. Only 2 or 3
days later the papers reported semiofficially
the names of more victims, together with a
demagogic, biased, and malicious account of
the actions for which the executed had been
convicted. This is a Gestapo way of expressing contempt for a despicable race—and they
regard the Czechs and also all the Slavs
merely as such. Heydrich's summary courts
showed their scorn of the whole Czech population further, and thus increased the feeling
of Insecurity. They would not publish a l l
the executions on the day they took place.
Sometimes the courts sat both i n the m o r n ing and afternoon, but only the decisions
of one of the two sessions were published.
Sometimes th» reports of the court i n Prague
only were made known, another day only
those of thy courr. n i Brno. Only several
weeks late could an approximately complete
list of the executions be drawn up.
On Sunday, September 28, the feast of St.
Weuceslas, the courts began to publish the
first verdicts; every night the voice of the
announcer of the Prague radio was heard giving as i t were inconspicuously, i n the middle
of the war commentary and home and foreign news, the daily ration for the horrorstricken Czech public of the death sentences
of the arrested patriots and the much-higher
number of those given over to the handling
of the Gestapo. The newspapers had to print
the reports on the following morning i n the
same way, incon.'ipicuously, among other
news items.
"By the decision of the Reich Protector i n
Bohemia and Moravia," so the announcement
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began, "were sentenced at the summary
courts i n Prague and i n Brno for high treason
and sabotrge; for preparing to commit high
treason, for economic sabotage and u n a u thorized possession of weapons; tor preparing
to commit high treason, tor sabotage and i l legal possession of weapons; for contemplated
economic sabotcge; for listening i n to foreign
broadcasts; (and, on October 26) for giving
support to saboteurs who entered the Protectorate by parachute, X , Y, and Z, as well as
15 other persons, to death by shooting. A, B,
and C, as well as 5 Jews, to death by hanging.
The sentence was carried out today. F u r ther, the courts ordered to be handed over to
the Gestapo, 256, 131, 43, 55, other accused."
On the first day the voice of the Czech a n nouncer quivered. He was obviously upset.
The next evening the man was replaced by
another announcer whose stronger, unshaken
voice held out Indifferently through the
weeks of blood, and did not tremble even
when, on November 28, he announced the
three hundred and ninety-fourth execution.
Mr. M c C O R M A C K .
Mr. Chairman, I
m o v e to s t r i k e out t h e l a s t tvi^o w o r d s .
M r . C h a i r m a n , following the r e m a r k s
of o u r d i s t i n g u i s h e d f r i e n d f r o m
Neb r a s k a [ M r . S T E F A N ] , I d e s i r e to m a k e a
brief a n n o u n c e m e n t t h a t o n S a t u r d a y
n e x t t h e r e w i l l c o m e to t h e c i t y of W a s h i n g t o n , as I h a v e b e e n i n f o r m e d , 1 4
h e r o e s of t h e U n i t e d N a t i o n s , w h o h a v e
already appeared in New Y o r k , Boston,
a n d o t h e r cities, a n d w h o w i l l a p p e a r i n
2 0 o t h e r cities of o u r c o u n t r y .
T h e s e y o u n g m e n are i n t r e p i d h e r o e s
of t h i s war, v?ho h a v e m a d e r e c o r d s of
heroism
fightlnc
for t h e i r c o u n t r y a n d
f i g h t i n g for t h e f o r c e s of d e c e n c y i n t h i s
conflict.
F i v e of these y o u n g m e n
are
A m e r c a n heroes
O n S a t u r d a y next they
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will visit W a s h i n g t o n . I k n o w the people
of W a s h i n g t o n w i l l give t h e m t h e s p l e n d i d r e c e p t i o n t h a t they r i c h l y deserve
a n d consistent w i t h the wonderful
receptions they have already received f r o m
t h e p e o p l e of t h e g r e a t c i t y of N e w Y o r k
a n d f r o m t h e p e o p l e of m y o w n g r e a t c i t y
of B o s t o n .
O n S a t u r d a y a f t e r n o o n at 1 2 : 3 0 those
h e r o e s w i l l c o m e to t h e S p e a k e r ' s office
to be o u r guests, a n d I i n v i t e a l l M e m bers of t h e H o u s e w h o a r e i n W a s h i n g t o n o n S a t u r d a y n e x t t o be p r e s e n t f r o m
1 2 : 1 5 to 1 2 : 3 0 p. m . to m e e t t h e s e h e r o e s .
I n t h e e v e n i n g t h e r e w i l l be a l a r g e
citizens' r a l l y h e l d at the W a t e r g a t e n e a r
Lincoln Memorial.
I a m i n f o r m e d by
the S e r g e a n t at A r m s t h a t a special sect i o n of t h e seats f o r t h e r a l l y a t
the
Watergate has been reserved foi M e m b e r s of t h e H o u s e a n d e a c h M e m b e r w i l l
r e c e i v e two t i c k e t s .
Those who
desire
t i c k e t s to t h a t v a s t m e e t i n g a t w h i c h
these y o u n g m.en w i l l s p e a k c a n o b t a i n
t h o s e t i c k e t s f r o m ^he S e r g e a n t a t A r m s .
This announcement, I think, appropria t e l y f o l l o w s t h e s t i r r i n g r e m a r k s of o u r
colleague f r o m N e b r a s k a [Mr.
STEFAN],
w h o p r e c e d e d m e , a n d I k n o w we a l l j o i n
w i t h h i m i n e x t e n d i n g tc the conquered
p e o p l e s of a l l n a t i o n s of t h e w o r l d o u r
h e a r t f e l t s y m p a t h y d u r i n g t h e p e r i o d of
t e m p o r a r y conquest.
Also, the fact t h a t
o u r g r e a t c o u n t r y a f t e r v i c t o r y c o m e s to
t h e c a u s e of t h e U n i t e d N a t i o n s , s t a n d s
for a future decent world, a n d for b r i n g i n g b a c k to t h e p e o p l e t e m p o r a r i l y c o n q u e r e d t h o s e f r e e d o m s t h a t t h e y so r i c h l y
deserve.