U. S.: HASN'T 'DONE WELL' BY REFUGEES, GROUP TOLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000701300003-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 2, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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U. S. Hasn't 'Done Well'
By Refugees, Group Told
By Marie Smith
and Eileen Summers
RUSSELL JONES, United
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? where he witnessed the Hun-
? garian revolution, said last
night the United States "has
a moral obligation" to Hun-
garian refugees but so far.
has "not done very well by
them."
In a talk before the 31st .
Women's Patriotic Confer-
ence on National Defense,
Inc., in session at the Stetter
Hotel, Jones declared "if we
I/ do not take these people ?
the propaganda is going to
be had for us."
"No European nations have
put a ceiling on the number
of refugees they would take,
and we don't look very good
at a time when we should
look good," he asserted, re-
feiTing to the quotas this
country has set up for the
refugees.
IN ADVOCATING entry
to the United States of more
Hungarians, the 38-year-old
correspondent who was the
only newsman on the scene
in Budapest during, the
bloody month of November,
declared:
"We're a nation of essen-
tially refugees .? . and I
think we could stand an in-
jection of new blood. This
is blood that has been tested
in battle and I think it is
good." ?
His talk followed action
by the Conference's resolti-
lions committee which
agreed yesterday to pre-
sent a resolution to the body
today criticizing the "slip-
shod" wdy in which refugees
? have been admitted to the
United States without pre-
cautionary screening.
HE STATED that the Hun-
garians have done ."some-
thing very important. They
have struck the first real
blow against the Soviet
Union and World Commu-
nism."
?
As a result, he continued,
.fthe mask has' been pulled
from World . Communiqn,
and they're in trouble in the
Soviet Union, in the satellite
countries, in France and
Italy where there is a strong
Communist Party and even
In neutral nations."
Russia knows now, he
added, that none V. her satel-
lite countries can be trusted.
But the, future for Hungary
is "very black." The Soviet
Army can keep that country
under control "without any
trouble at all," he said.
IN MS ? FIRSTHAND re-
. port on the 'revolution. Jones
comparedt "our ? ol?ii
revoluti . But he said, al-
!eget' that broadcasts hy
R4gtib Free Europe and the
Ake of America "initiated.
.the revolution' were) not
true.
However, he added, the
United States did encourage
the situation that led to the
revolt by the "policy of liber-
ation" upon which nearly
every candidate for public
office ran, and their state-
ments of this policy were
?broadcast by the Voice and
Radio Free Europe.
The people of Hungary, he
said, "thought they had?been
encouraged to revolt." ft was
very sad because "there was
nothing We could do without
precipating World War III,"
he added,
Jones recommended that
"if we're going to continue
to talk" over Radio Free
Europe and the Voice of
America, "we must draw the
line somewhere" so that "we
can translate the talk into
action."
4 ?
THE MINNEAPOLIS-born
newsman who has spent 15
of his 38 years in Europe,
said the Hungarians were
not fighting for capitalism
in their revolt, but for "some-
thing like British socialism."
And in the forefront of the
mitial fight, he said, were
filo students who had been
chosen and trained to be-
come "Communist leaders,"
? ?
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/06/14: CIA-RDP74-00297R000701300003-1