Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-24
More Refugees
|AreArriviing
In U. 5. Today

~ AV0UY
More flights to freedom we're
bringing additional Hungarians
to this country today to exchange
the role Of refugee from Soviet
terror for the liberty and wide
open welcome Of United States
democracy.
The new planeloads Of escapes
from Hungary were scheduled to
land at Mcclure Air Force Base
in New Jersey. Their 100 or
more passengers. poor in mate
rial possessions and sad for the
fate of less fortunate families
and friends left in Hungary, will
go Immediately to nearby Camp
Kilmer and soon thereafter to
new homes in the New World.
Four planes already have
brought groups Of refugees to-
this country as part Of the mas
sive move to shelter at least
5000 and perhaps more. In cold
weather but with a warm vel
come. a plane arrived at Billy
Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee
bearing 70 fugitives.
/ Greeted by 500
Their reception by more than
500 at the airport was fearful
as well as joyful. But it was
typical of the determination of
their friends and well-wiShers
in this country to obtain for
them the blessings of peace and
an opportunity for work.
Almost all of the first group
of so that arrived in the United
States Wednesday already had
left Camp Kilmer, reactivated
Especially to care for the Hun
garians. Most had gone to new
homes with American families.
Yesterdays first plane, a
DC-4, brought IS men, Is
women, IL children and four
babies into Mcclure at 2:47 am.
Tired and sleepy, they stray
gled through the cold to Army
buses and were brought here
for processing.
/ Less than IL hours later. an
other DC-4 arrived at MCGUIRE
with SIS persons-57 men. six
women and two children.
/ The National Catholic We'll
fare Council sponsored 48 per-
sons aboard. the Church World
Service II.
Another plane bearing "a
more refugees landed at Nc
! Cure shortly before Z o'clock
last night. Aboard were "a males.
40 women. including % children.
In the Milwaukee arrival in g.
above zero weather, the 70 refu-
gees responded to the warm well
come by singing their national
anthem. Then they went rapidly
through an immigration inspec-
ton and on to st. Emeric's Hun
garian Roman Catholic Church
to give thanks for their deliver
ance and to ask divine assist
ance for those still suffering in
Hungary.
For many Of those in the Fly
ing Tiger DC-4 that arrived 25la
flying hours out of Vienna-and
for many of the 500 waiting in
the gushing wind at Mitchell Air
Field-the occasion was COM
pounded Of joy and grief.
Il feel like the king in the
fairy tale. with one eye weeping
and the other eye laughing" said
Milwaukee Pastor Kalman CSia
in greeting the new arrivals. Il
laugh because I see you here, and
weep because ! am thinking Of
others, who perhaps are going
to Siberia or are suffering under
the Bolsheviks.
And from one Of their own,
31-year-old Budapest Radio An
nouncer Zoltan Varga, came the
stern admonitionS
I'VE are thankful to be in this
new land and we are grateful for
all the friends who greet us
but this is a time also for some
thing else.
This is the time to remember
those We left behind"
In Slave Camps
Mr.. Varga said he had spent
eight years in Soviet slave camps
for his political activities since
the war.
| The Milwaukee group also
produced eyewitness stories OF
Soviet horrors. One of the army
booted youths in the party told
Of seeing his father hanged and
his mother herded onto a train
with hundreds Of other Hunga-
rians for deportation to Russia.
Another. who gave his name
as Emil. said he was in the crowd
pulling down the Stain statue
in Budapest when the Bolshe-
vik tanks came"
They ran down the little chill
dren with the tanks" Emil said.
They just ground them into
the dirt"
Emil. like many of the others,
escaped on foot to the Austrian
. border.