Their families are healthy and hard working. Nebraska. being one of the youngest of the 48 States. naturally has many socalled nationality groups. who homesteaded to the Western States where they could settle free land and become good Americans. We of the Cornhusker State know that most immigrants who came to our territory successfully integrated themselves into the American way of life. Now Congressman STEFAN asks that our Nation open its gates to at least 25 percent of the 10.000 to 12.000 Czechoslovak political refugees who preferred to leave their homeland rather than submit to Communist domination. These people. now in the American zone of Germany as well as in British and French zones. have not even the status of displaced persons. and are not included in help given through the International Refugee Organization. Yet they. of all nations overrun by the Communists after World War II. had the courage to stake their faith in democracy against remaining in their own nation under totalitarianism. Yes.
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