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Junior League Section EDITOR, MISS MILDRED MILANOWICZ— 151 Hopkins Avenue Jersey City 6, New Jersey Only You Are Left First, remember the date — February 22, 1947. Now. If you were a person who refused to give up your right to speak your mind — whether to praise or to criticize; if you were the kind who insisted on worshipping God, if you so chose, and how you chose; if you are a normal person who would like to live a life- free from fear and free from poverty and want — why you would be an American, surely. You might also, however, be one of the 300,000 Ukrainians in some Displaced Persons Camps in Europe. You might be one of these people who refuse point blank to return to an existence of terror under a government whose tenets do not acknowledge the Four Freedoms. And that is their only crime — their democratic ideals. ^ If you were one of these 300,000 Ukrainian. D.P.’s, you would be punished aiid hounded for this ‘crime/ the way they are being hounded by the totalitarian Soviet regime which seeks to annihilate their democratic ideology. You would not be permitted to call yourseif by your true name. Paradoxically, with Ukraine supposedly represented among the United Nations, there are no Ukrainian people in European camps — as Moscow woifld have the world believe. You would not be permitted to write ,І£Д$£& in your own lan guage. You would have an uncertain future. The morrow might bring a forced return to the Soviet Union that spells oblivion, or it might bring a passport to America that spells freedom. You would be needing winter clothes soon — a host of friends, who would raise their collective voice in your behalf where it would be recognized and heard and heeded. A voice that would stay the Soviet arm of vengeance. A voice that would insist and fight for rights, Ilf you were one O'f these 300,000 Ukrainian D.P.’s, where would you turn for help? Of course — to Americans — to people who have the same thoughts and the same ideals. To Ukrainian Americans especially, to the people who stem from the same common stock — the stock that produced their common democratic ideals. You are a young Ukrainian American. You are one of the young people who are busy organizing clubs, running dances, staging con certs and rallies and conventions and plays.. Wo.uld you let your Ukrainian kinsmen down when they need you most? Do you recog nize an obligation? Do you deafly see your duty to dedicate all or at least a large part of the proceeds of our Ukrainian American affairs toward aid for these unfortunate people? Of course you do. You may be assured, from the reports brought back from these European D.P. Camps by Dr. Walter Gallan, President of the Uk rainian American Relief Committee after his visit there, that these people are truly worthy of saving. You may be assured that the Jbales of clothing, shoes and fQod^ at. present, -representing over half-million dollars, are reaching their prqppj;;:
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