These are just examples of the desire of people for freedom. and this bill provides added hope and encouragement to enslaved peoples. Through that single opening in the Iron Curtain. Berlin. to which the Soviets laid siege during the airlift days of 1948 and 1949. some 119.000 refugees from Communistcontrolled East Germany sought escape during 1952. The influx of these escapees has increased with the tightening of other borders of the Communistcontrolled countries. In January of this year the number was 25.340. in February. 41.200. in March. 48.700. Yet since the end of the war. 10 million expellees and refugees have crowded into the Federal Republic of West Germany. an area not quite so large as Oklahoma. We should not be proud of the fact that these expellees have had to go to West Germany. because. in one sense. some of our previous acts could be responsible for some of this movement. It has been estimated that there are now 1.125.000 landless farmers who are unlikely to find adjustment in already overcrowded West Germany.
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