Mr. President. within the past few days we have heard news about the possible termination of the program of the admission into the United States of Hungarian refugees from the Communist terror. I consider this program vital and essential to the antiCommunist struggle being waged by our country. Unless the people behind the Iron Curtain have a feeling that the great powers. especially the United States. are interested in giving them some safe places of resettlement if they deprive the Communists of their talents and support. we can hardly expect the sort of events which occurred in Hungary. and which we hope will occur in other parts of the Soviet satellite empireevents such as the one which occurred when the people of East Berlin opposed Russian tanks with their bare handsand we can hardly hope to encourage the flickerings of independence which arise even in countries such as Poland. where there is some beginning of a glimmer of hope. So. Mr. President. yesterday I sent to the Department of State and the Department of Justice a telegram in which I urged that. for the present. the assistance programs be continued. and in the telegram I pointed out that if the reason for the proposed discontinuance of the program is the failure of the Congress to act upon the immigration recommendations made by the President. then. in order to make this reason valid. the President should first send to the Congress a special message strongly urging emergency action. and stating the alternatives. Mr. President. I hope very much that the Congress will now give this matter the most serious attention. and. at one and the same time. I hope that the administration will not terminate the refugee parolee program. Termination 3f the program would strike a blow at the strong antiCommunist stand which the program buttresses. and without this program. I believe that our antiCommunist program would be gravely hurt.
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