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OCR Page 1 of 6TROMAN
REFUGEES
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES
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RECORDS
SERVICE
In the continuing effort of governments and international and
private organizations to resolve the problems of World War II refu-
gees and the constant flow of refugees into Central Europe from
Eastern European countries, the year 1958 may be described as a
period of stock taking and reassessment of the residual problem of
refugees not only in Europe, but also in the Far East. In 1957 as
a result of the Hungarian revolution the attention of the world was
dramatically focussed on the plight of refugees from oppression and
on the desire latent in individuals and in groups en masse to seek
opportunities to live in dignity and in an atmosphere of personal
freedom. The response of governments to the crisis of the Hungarian
revolution was sufficiently generous in 1957 to provide asylum for
some 200,000 refugees who fled Hungary in 1956 and 1957 into Austria
and Yugoslavia. At the beginning of 1958 only 18,000 Hungarian refu-
gees remained in Austria awaiting resettlement in other countries and
less than 2,500 in Yugoslavia. The latter, the residue of 19,000,
were moved on to other countries in Europe and overseas in the first
quarter of the year. Resettlement of those remaining in Austria at
the beginning of the year proceeded more slowly. Canada accepted an
additional seven hundred, Australia an equal number and the United
States made visas available for some three thousand. Many of the
Hungarian refugees in Austria preferred however to remain in the
hospitable atmosphere provided by the Austrian Government and people
rather than to risk the uncertainties of resettlement in overseas
countries.
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