Speaker. that initially I had very firm misgivings about this. simply from the standpoint of the diplomatic implications that were involved. no less. but the State Department has come before us and they have .assured us they do not construe this as being in any way the recognition of the permanence of Castro. Beyond this question. may I make this observation which I am certain is foremost in the mind of the average Member of Congress. Have we taken this step before? The answer is. certainly we have. We did it with respect to the Hungarian refugees to whom this country opened its doors in 1956. We did it in several other instances in which refugees have come to us within the mandate of the U.N. High Commission. One of the interesting facts is that this would cost no additional sums of money.
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