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2--2--2 RONALD REAGAN RADIO BROADCAST SUBJECT: Katyn Forest In 1971, the movement to honor the murdered officers was started and, because London is the home of that exiled Polish government, it was decided London should be the site of the memorial. The British government was subjected to bitter and constant pressure from Moscow to prevent the raising of such a monument. Year-after-year the British government blocked every location selected by the memorial commission. Finally in some way the tiny, obsoure Gunnesbury cemetery was found and ended up as the only possible location for the memorial. Lord Oswald, vice chairman of the commission, spoke at the dedication but let it be known there was no official representative of the British government nor of the Church of England present. He declared, "Intrinsic also, and essential is the date 1940 engraved upon the face, because that relates in stone another element of the truth, which only the guilty, the ignorant, and the ignoble still crave to deny" A member of Parliament and former Conservative Cabinet Minister, Julian Amery, made known that he had invited representatives of other countries in letters to 42 embassies. Only seven sent representatives to the little cemetery for the memorial ceremony and only one was a major power. There was Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Liberia, South Africa, Uraguay, and you' 11 be proud I'm sure to know -- the United States of America. This is Ronald Reagan. Thanks for listening.