Mr. Speaker. on the surface it is hard to understand how any American official could turn a political refugee back to any totalitarian regime. For that reason alone I wish to commend President Nixon for his quick action in demanding a full report of the incident involving the return by the Coast Guard to Russian hands of the Lithuanian defector last Friday. . Unless there is much more to the story than we read in the papers this action by American officials is unforgiveable. For generations we have been taking refugees of other lands. refugees fleeing from racial. religious. and political persecution. I am pleased to see that this is the Presidents attitude also. and I am sure that so long as he is President this kind of thing will not be repeated.
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