Mr. President. on .May 15 the refugee reception center at Camp Kilmer. N. J.. is to be shut down. It is an event that I view with mixed emotionsmixed emotions in that it at once fills me with pride over the magnitude of the job this country has done -in aiding thousands of freedomseeking -Hungarian refugees. and chills that pride with shame that we are quitting before the job is done. Mr. President. since that signal day last November 20 when the first American plane carried a load of refugees to the United States. our Nation has taken in more than 31.000 who fled from Communist oppression. Our Nation further has assisted in resettling another 100.000 Hungarian refugees in other countries. There remain in Austria today only about 40.000 of the estimated 171.000 Hungarians who crossed to freedom. .There are another 16.000 to 18.000 estimated Hungarian refugees who have fled to Yugoslavia in recent weeks since Austrian escape was blocked by Communist barbed wire. Let me tell the Senate about just one of those 40.000 remaining in Austria. Her name is Agnes RozsaRoZha.
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