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Document
#852; April 29, 1954
To Whitney Hart Shepardson
Series:
EM, AWF, Draft Series
; Category:
Telegram
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part
V: Maintaining "a united defense"; April 1954 to August 1954
Chapter
10: Losing the war "they could not win"
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I hope you will give my warm greetings to the exile labor leaders of Central and Eastern Europe at your dinner April thirtieth. Your work to keep alive the spirit of free labor movements in their countries has my deep personal sympathy.
All free governmental systems provide opportunity to working people to organize for the purpose of pursuing their own legitimate aspirations. Trade unions, created by workers themselves, are devices to represent and support their interests in society.2
Free trade unions are not possible under the Communist regimes that have seized power in the countries of the exile labor leaders. However, man's unquenchable yearning for freedom will eventually triumph over these alien rulers and restore to the nations of Central and Eastern Europe the opportunity freely to develop in a free Europe. A strong and democratic trade union movement will, I am sure, form an integral part of the national structures freely established by these peoples.
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Telegram To Whitney Hart Shepardson,
29 April 1954.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 852.
World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1996, http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/852.cfm
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