Mr. President. on June 1 the British launched their World Refugee Year in the historic Mansion House. London. with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan declaring. "We must respond to this splendid idea." In our own country we are planning to launch World Refugee Year on July 1. On May 19 President Eisenhower designated the 12 months beginning July 1 as World Refugee Year in the United States. In an article in the June 2 issue of the Christian Science Monitor entitled "British Help Launch World Refugee Year." Mr. John Allan May presents a very excellent account of how World Refugee Year got under way in our sister country. I would like to quote one paragraph from this article which I recommend to my colleagues: It may not be possible to solve in so few months all the problems of all the refugees. the millions from Communist China. the tens of thousands from Tibet. the many Koreans. the innumerable Arabs. the Hungarians. and all the others. yet the intention is to find the answer to the major part of the problem in the next 12 months and to prove the whole problem can be beaten. I sincerely hope that this will be the attitude taken by the American people during World Refugee Year. The plight of the refugees constitutes a formidable challenge to Americans and to the entire free world. and this challenge. this blot on our conscience. must be met with forthrightness and with vigor. This challenge is very dramatically presented by Mr. William Henry Chamberlin in an article entitled "Uprooted Lives" in the June 5 issue of the Wall Street Journal.
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