The direct generosity of individual Americans to those who are hungry and homeless in other nations amounts to millions of dollars a year channeled through more than 35 voluntary agencies. The esteemed Monsignor Edward E. Swanstrom. chairman of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service. and himself director of Catholic Relief Services. has called attention in a statement signed by the councils executive committee to the special obligations of our Nation for both public and private efforts in World Refugee Year. The council comments that "the voluntary agencies take pride in the spirit which has prevailednote the resultsand are challenged by the vast area of critical needs still to be met." Among these needs the council asks full use by the administration of the $10 million World Refugee Year Fund authorization and refugee admission legislation providing for admission of certain "difficult to resettle" persons. Both these proposals are goals which I wholeheartedly endorse. Mr.
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