I move to strike out the last word. Mr. Chairman. because of the resolution adopted by the United Nations designating this year as Refugee Year. I trust that the $10 million provided for will be appropriated. But let us get a true perspective of the situation. I had a nose count made of the refugees who are subject to the mandate of the United Nations. There are fewer than 29.000 in Europe. This. of course. strikes many of the Members as very strange because of the bills tha have been introduced providing for the admission into the United States of 68.000 annually. But there are not that many refugees in all of Europe who are subject to the mandate of the United Nations. Therefore. if we appropriate $10 millionand I am not objecting to itlet it be understood that this money will be used for the refugees in Palestine and for the upward of 3 million Chinese refugees in Hong Kong. In that connection. it is very interesting to note that the British offered the resolution designating this year as Refugee Year. They were a long while in finding out that there were such things as refugees. They were a long time in finding out that the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration was moving thousands of people every year. It was not until the problem in Hong Kong became acute that the British came along with this resolution and an appropriation of $500.000. I am. very proud of the fact that our great Republic has contributed much more than $500.000 every year in the relief of this problem. But let us go into this thing with our eyes wide open. This money cannot be used for European refugees because there just are not that many.
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