Speech #870198093

I urge my fellow Americans to consider giving support to the International Rescue Committee. I might tell the Chair that. as I am in the habit of practicing what I preach. I am sending a check to the International Rescue Committee. myself. today. in order to produce. in the fastest possible wayand that is the fastest possible wayadditional resources for the care which we solicit here and in other places for these refugees from Communist China. Finally. let us not ever overlook for a moment the tremendous significance of the kind of an exodus the flight of these refugees represents. and it is an exodus. apparently. of very significant moment from a Communist country. especially a Communist country which has been as bitter and intransigent in its hateAmerica campaign as has the regime of Communist China. Just as we are inclined to look with considerable gratification on the fact that no country we know of. once free. has turned Communist. and that some of them. although they have veered in that direction. have retraced their steps very hurriedly--except for the dreadful example which we have in Cuba. right off our shoresso we have a right to take considerable satisfaction from the fact that we have had no exodus from the free world to the Communist world. Even those very few who have even thought of the idea have in many cases turned right around and retraced their steps.