Mr. President. in a recent statement on the floor of the Senate I told of the many thousands of refugees who were going from behind the Iron Curtain and from East Germany through free Berlin. the gateway to the West. to a new life of freedom in the West. there being some 4.000 a week. or about a quarter million a year. who have found refuge in the Western democracies from the terror behind the Iron Curtain. But. Mr. President. there is another side to this picturewhat happens to these refugees once they are on the free side of the Iron Curtain? In the April 4. 1959. issue of the Army. Navy. and Air Force Journal. Mrs. Barksdale Hamlett. wife of the U.S. commander in Berlin. tells of some of the activities being conducted by the wives of American servicemen to help refugees and students in West Berlin. Mr. President.
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