Mr. President. very recently the distinguished occupant of the chair. the Vice President of the .United States. visited Austria for the purpose of studying the Hungarian refugee problem. When the distinguished Vice President returned to this country he made a statement to the people of the United States as to the obvious general quality of the Hungarian refugees. Mr. President. I. and I presume all of my colleagues. have had many inquiries from our respective States regarding questions which I felt the Vice President adequately answered when he returned from Austria recently. but to satisfy myself. I took advantage of a short period of active duty during the past week to fly into Germany and Austria for a visit to the border and some refugee camps at the assembly points. I concur wholeheartedly with the statement made by the distinguished Vice President when he said that few. if any. Communists are among the Hungarian refugees. and that they are people of obviously high quality. After my visit there. and after reading the remarks of the Vice President. I became convinced that the screening being conducted is making it virtually impossible for Communists to come in with the refugee groups. I am not standing here saying there are no Communists coming with them. because that would be an impossible statement to make. but I am convinced that the course being followed by the Government is resulting in a minimum of Communists coming here. Mr. President. I was impressed by the youth of the refugees. I understand the average age of the Hungarian refugees is about 24. that some 6.000 college students have come into this country. among them. I understand. some doctors of philosophy. I have not seen in the camps any people whom Americans usually associate with refugee groups. I did not see old. tired people. I saw the youth of Hungary. eager to leave the tyranny of the Communists. and anxious to get to a country whose freedom they recognize as coming from God.
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