I am asking the Congress to increase appreciably the appropriations for this program and for legislation establishing a career service for the Agencys overseas foreign service officers. The recent historic events in Hungary demand that all free nations share to the extent of their capabilities the responsibility of granting asylum to victims of Communist persecution. I request the Congress promptly to enact legislation to regularize the status in the United States of Hungarian refugees brought here as parolees. I shall shortly recommend to the Congress by special message the changes in our immigration laws that I believe necessary in the light of our world responsibilities. The cost of peace is something we must face boldly. fearlessly. Beyond money. it involves changes in attitudes. the renunciation of old prejudices. even the sacrifice of some seeming selfinterest.
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