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Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to introduce for appropriate reference four private bills for four Polish nationals now in this country who are under orders of deportation. I want to make public reference to these bills and to these four cases because these four individuals are specifically typical of individuals the United States should by general law make eligible and for whom the United States should be safe asylum from the oppression and persecution and tyranny from which these individuals fled behind the iron curtain. Two of the individuals for whom I am introducing these private bills are especially noteworthy. The first of them is a young man 24 years old. Henry Baranczak by name. who should be wearing a decoration rather than be under warrant of deportation from the United States. This young man in August or late July of 1951 organized a mutiny on a Polish naval vessel and boldly seized control of the ship along with 11 other freedomloving Poles and sailed into a Swedish harbor. This young man who had a long record of intransigence and resistance to the Communist ideology. was given asylum in Sweden. and then fearing reprisal. came to the United States as a stowaway.