Are these people to be abandoned to die of starvation and dispair once they have legally reached Hong Kong. because assistance to them would be an undertaking of "new programs or activities--in fiscal year 1974 that were .not carried on in fiscal year 1973" and thus would be prohibited under the Senate mandate of Senate Report 93620even though some international assistance to them will be forthcoming. Let us hope not. We are a compassionate nation. Even with our inflation. our energy shortage. and our other problems. we cannot afford morally to abandon the needy of the world. Today it is the Cuban refugee in Spain. or the overseas Chinese migrant in Hong Kongtomorrow it may be any part of the world. We cannot. and I trust will not. shut our eyes. our hearts. or our pocketbooks to alleviate such suffering. The dismay of the voluntary agencies is well expressed in a telegram I received today.
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