Mr. President. the prospect that a free and humane government may capitulate to the demands of terrorist thugs in Austria is appalling to all people who honor peace. freedom. and human dignity. it is my earnest hope that this will not come to pass. and that the gangsters who perpetrated last weeks terrorism in Austria will be denied any semblance of a victory. Last weeks attack on a train in Austria by Arab gunmen and the kidnaping of three Jewish emigrants from Russia. was a brutal. criminal act. It was of the same genre as the airplane hijackings and the tragic. coldblooded murder of Israeli athletes at Munich. which have condemned Arab terrorists to the scorn history reserves for pirates. The only way to combat this armed blackmail is for the nations of the world to stand firm in refusing to accede to its demands. Reports that the Austrian Government agreed to halt the use of that nation as a processing center for Jews emigrating from Russia to Israel were most discouraging. They gave the appearance. at least. of capitulation to the terrorist demands. Among certain Arab groups the kidnapings were hailed as a victory for terrorism. and one newspaper in Beirut declared they represented: The first . . . act of piracy (to achieve) a precise and concrete result.
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Arabs are described as 'terrorist thugs' and 'gangsters'.