One is the item in the budget estimates of $12.5 million for the intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. The committee cut that to $10 million. It is estimated that this will mean a reduction of 25.000 in the number of refugees and others in Europe vho can be resettled in this new fiscal year. It comes at a time when an urgent situation has arisen where it would be of the greatest advantage to have those additional funds available. or else additional funds for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. I refer to Austria where there still are between 30.000 and 35.000 refugees from Russia and Iron Curtain countries. Under the Allied occupation of Austria. they were safe. Now Austria is being given her independence and the refugees are living in the dtmost fear that the same thing will happen to them that happened at the end of the war to many refugees who had came over from the Soviet Union and East European countries and after Potsdam were shipped back to Communist enslavement. We seek to assure them. but we will no longer be in control in Austria and they live in apprehension. It is made worse by the fact that at this moment there is a Soviet repatriation commission that is visiting all of the camps telling them. "You have been let down by the West.
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