October 1966 will mark the 10th anniversary of the uprising of the people of Hungary in pursuit of the basic human freedoms that we. in America. have enjoyed for nearly two centuries. The United States today has many interests in common with this inherently democratic people. not the least of which is the fact that over 50.000 Hungarian freedom fighters. who managed to escape from onrushing Soviet armor. are today living and working in our country. These refugees from totalitarian terror are a living reminder to Americans of the desperate plight of the captive peoples of Eastern Europe. which often seems lost in the daytoday life of a free and democratic people. It is indeed fitting that a memorial to those who fought and died in the Hungarian revolution be erected here in the Capital of our Nation. which has won and lived by the same freedoms that these men and women fought and died for. The memorial I propose will serve not only as a memorial to the more than 24.000 Hungarian dead. but as a monument to American faith in and commitment to the whole Hungarian nation. whose cries for selfgovernment are now muffled behind a closely guarded barbed wire frontier.
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