I am certain all Members of the Senate have studied the report of the United Nations committee in connection with what happened in Hungary last fall. It is unfortunate some mechanism was not provided. either by the NATO countries or by the United Nations. which would effectively deal with the problem brought about by the revolt of the freedomloving Hungarians against their repression by the Soviet Communists. but we can be grateful that at least a report of what happened has now been submitted. The report. and the general Hungarian problem. are discussed in an outstanding editorial in the New York Times of today. which I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the RECORD. but first I should like to read the first paragraph of the editorial: Instead of congratulating ourselves. as the administration persists in doing. on the admission of a mere 32.000 Hungarian refugees during the past 6 months. we ought to be ..searching out new ways to give help and give it generously. One way would be to relieve the increasingly desperate condition of a few thousand Hungarian teenagers who fled their country last fall and are now stuck in Austrian camps where they are fast losing their future. A few hundred of these "unaccompanied minors" have relatives in the United States who would like to take them inbut who are stopped (just as are relatives of Jewish refugees from Egypt) either by our immigration laws or by the administrations interpretation of them. or both. Fourteen hundred of these Hungarian children are already reported to have gone back or to have disappeared. Will official Indifference--on the part not of some remote European bureaucrat but of our own American Governmentkill all hope for those who remain?
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