The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-02-28

My recent trip to Europe, for the
purpose of obtaining current in.
formation on the Hungarian Rcfu-
gee program to be used in con
sidcration of legislation on this
subject, proved cnlightcning Spe,
officially | investigated our secur-
ity measures and sought informa-
ton on the exact nature of the per
sons who have been and ar flee
ing from Hungary l was able ia
get some ideas for the use of the
House immigration Committee on
the proportion Of these people who
are actually refugees fleeing in
fear of danger to their lives or
their personal freedom
on our trip we visited Vienna
and Berlin. talked with our diplo-
matte representatives and security
people the representatives Of the
ntergovernmental Committee for
European Migration. our immi-
grafton authorities, the Red Cross,
and Austrian citizens with no Of
fetal positions
In Berlin. was impressed with
the thoroughness of the eXami-
nation given by the Germans. OF
course, their problem. in many re-
spects. is easier than our since they
are Germans dealing with Ger
mans.
In spite of the difficulties faced
by our examiners in screening the
Hungarian refugees, they are do
ing an excellent job. 1t does not
appear that many real Commu-
nists arc getting through 1t is also
important TO note that many of
the early arrivals who were obvi-
ously Communists or Communist
SympathlcrS return to Hungary
Many of those who remain in the
refugee camps are spotted by other
refugees Our security officials in
Hungary believe that this is after
all the best way of detecting the
Communist
From all the information we
could gather from every source, il
must be concluded that a large
number of persons who have fled
into Austria are not legitimate
refugees. a large proportion of
them are opportunists taking adj
vantage of this situation to fulfill
a lonC-held ambition to get to the
United States. | believe recent
disturbance in England among the
Hungarian refugees illustrates this
attitude Some 5000 complained
that they were miSlcd in coming
to Britain from Austria They con-
tended they came to England with
the understanding that il would be
a transit point for them TO the
United States. 1t seems to me that
if these persons were legitimate
refugees fleeing in fear of their
lives they would welcome any de-
cent place of refuge
We also found that large num-
Der of people coming over arc il
ltcratc and in extremely poor
health. By poor health do not
mean merely the result of the
ravaGcs of the revolution and the
hardship of their flight Many of
these people are obviously persons
who have been in bad health for
many years, and some have been
inmates OF mental institutions.
Quite a few of the people coming
across the border recently possess
hungarian passports. Nearly all of
these who have such passports are
very old people, or people unfit
for work because of poor health.
Many of the refugees arc report
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