I refer to the Reverend Aloysius J. Wycislo. assistant executive director of the resettlement division of the National Catholic Wefare Conference. who writes: I believe that we are as familiar with the background of the people who are escaping from behind the Iron Curtain as anyone. We worked with them and lived with them in Germany. and we have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in relief to these people through our own personal representatives. * * * It was great encouragement for us to read in the CONGRESSIONAL REcORD your very excellent refutation of the charge that were any refugees to come from behind the Iron Curtain. they would all be subversives. Father Wycislo went on to say that these charges are. and I read from his letter. "untenable. unfair and. certainly unjust." Mr. President. I would make one more passing reference to the loyalties of the expellees and escapees into the free world. There was a very recent report in the press that refugees streaming out of Russia and her satellites are providing the United States Air Force with some of its best information on where and how to set about retaliatory bombing if the U. S. S.
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Charge that all refugees from behind the Iron Curtain would be subversives is untenable, unfair, and unjust.