President. I shall continue by reading another press dispatch. which I again think is very revealing of the great turmoil and confusion and revolt now going on behind the Iron Curtain. This is an Associated Press dispatch from Berlin: Polish tank troops called in by the Soviet command refused to fire on rioting workers in the East German revolt. refugees disclosed today. In warbattered Goerlitz. on the GermanPolish frontier. Polish tanks rumbled into the citys main square to face a crowd of several thousand Germans demonstrating for freedom. The senior Polish officer stepped out of his tank. faced the Germans--and saluted. "I dont fire on German workers." he said. The Germans returned his salute. When the Russians saw the Poles were not going to resist the Germans. they ordered the Polish troops back across the border and sent in Russian tanks. the refugees said. Mr. President. this Indicates to me what many of us have felt for a long time. that in the socalled empire of the satellite countries the Soviet Union is having serious trouble. and that many of the forces they have mustered and much of the military strength they have listed as being available and ready for combat will not be available to the Soviet Union for purposes of aggression or of attack upon peoples who want their freedom.
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