Mr. Speaker. I have been greatly concerned about the plight of Czechoslovak refugees since the Russian invasion of 1969 which caused so many of them to flee from their homeland. I have proposed through House Concurrent Resolution 457 that the President take steps to ease the plight of these refugees both by action and by expressing the national policy in his position as Chief Executive. A more specific type of help has recently been demonstrated in my own congressional district at the Cheshire. Conn.. plant of the Waterbury Farrel Manufacturing Co. where six Czechoslovak refugees have been enlisted for a training program in which the company has cooperated with the American Fund for Czechoslovakian Refugees. The company hopes to expand the program to 25 refugees in the near future and 30 to 60 eventually. To receive these men and to make a place for them in our affluent society constitutes citizenship at the highest level. I am proud of this action and I include herewith a laudatory editorial from the New Haven Register which appropriately compliments all concerned:
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