Extracted text

OCR Page 1 of 7
TRUMAN HARRY 'NATIONAL REFUGEES ARCHIVES AND EVENUE RECORDS SERVICE" There were no new movements of refugees in 1963. However, individual Chinese refugees from Mainland China continued to press for admission to Hong Kong in small boats from the transit point of Macau. East Germans con- tinued to flee to West Berlin and West Germany. Yugoslavs entered Austria at the rate of 3,000 and Italy at the rate of 5,000 annually. Small groups of Cuban refugees escaped from Cuba to Spain and to areas in the Caribbean. Smaller numbers of White Russians than in previous years left Mainland China for resettlement in overseas countries through Hong Kong. There were no new movements of Tibetan refugees into Nepal and India. The trickle of refugees from Eastern Europe numbering some 15,000 annually appeared to be increasing particularly from Poland and Rumania. French and Belgian agricultural families whose prospects for the future in North Africa were severely restricted sought resettlement in agriculture in the Argentine and Brazil. 224 Old Believers from Turkey were paroled into the United States in June 1963. They were members of the old Russian Orthodox faith who could no longer intermarry within their

Relations