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Several Presidents of the United States have received delegations of the American Hungarian Federation. and the federation is in constant touch with the State Department and Members of Congress on problems of American policy toward Hungary in particular and Eastern Europe in general. Recently major studies by the federations foreign affairs committee included one on the international law status of the armed forces of the U.S.S.R. stationed on Hungarian soil. sent to 111 U.N. ambassadors. a statement to Subcommittee No. 4 of the House Judiciary Committee. on bills proposing to make flag burning a Federal crime. an analysis of the abortion laws of Hungary. submitted to the American Medical Association. and. a memorandum to the President of the United States on American policy toward Hungary and Eastern Europe. The federation sponsored 22.605 Hungarian refugees after World War II to this country. and helped 35.705 refugees after the 1956 Hungarian fight for freedom to come to America. On charitable matters. the federation. between 1945 and 1952. sent help to Hungary and to Hungarians living in Western Europe in the amount of $1.457.743.26 and its relief action after the Hungarian Revolution amounted to $512.560.08. even before a separate organization was chartered to do the relief work. The federation consists of the two American Hungarian fraternal associationsHungarian Reformed Federation of America and William Penn Fraternal Associationits own State and local chapters.