This issue contains material more than a year old, and that fact has naturally had an influence on its selection and on the length at which it is presented.
The reason for the break in the Chronicle‘s publication was the KGB’s repeated and unequivocal threats: they would respond to each new issue of the Chronicle with new arrests — arrests of people suspected by the KGB of publishing or distributing new or past issues: cf. the material on “Case 24” in this (CCE 28.3, pt. 1) and the next issue (CCE 29.8, pt. 2).
People faced with the terrible necessity of making decisions which will affect not only themselves are placed in an ethical situation the nature of which requires no comment. But to remain silent would mean to facilitate — even indirectly and passively — the use of a “tactic of hostages” which is incompatible with justice, morality and human dignity.
The Chronicle, therefore, is resuming publication and will strive to preserve both the principles and the style of previous issues.
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30 April 1968, Issue One
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A Chronicle of Current Events 