Mr. Speaker. under leave to extend my remarks in the REcORD. I include the following text of a report by Lowell Thomas in the New York Times of June 3. 1953. by the American Emergency Committee for Tibetan Refugees which I had the privilege of helping to organize in April. and which has already raised nearly a million dollars in money and contributions of drugs and other needed supplies for Tibetans who have escaped to India from the cruel Communist blow at their peaceful homeland. Americans have plenty of shortcomings. and no one is more critical of us than we ourselves. but it is a neverending source of wonder and admiration to see the way Americans of all walks of life and all colors of the political spectrum will respond with spontaneous generosity to help human beings in need. wherever they are or whatever the cause of their sufferings. In ultimate terms the character and quality of a civilization are demonstrated by what it does for people.
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