Chairman. I would like to call the committees attention to page 3 of the legislation we are discussing at the present time. line 12: Special Presidential fund: For assistance authorized by section 401 (b) $100 million. In other words. we have here a $100 million authorization for refugees. escapees. or what have you from all Communistcontrolled countries and. according to the language of the authorization bill. that would include Yugoslavia. I think the Committee is faced with this inconsistency. Mr. Chairman: We are being asked on the one hand to appropriate money for escapees and refugees from Communistdominated countries. including Yugoslavia. On the other hand. we are being asked to appropriate an unspecified amount of money for the very Communist country from which some of these escapees and refugees are fleeing to seek independence in the free world. You can support the people of Yugoslavia or you can support the Communist government of Yugoslavia. but you cannot do both. My amendment will take out assistance for Communist Yugoslavia.
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