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the -9 - the and adequate administrative organization set up, the non European govern- ments would be more willing to receive them and give then the welcose and the opportunities they desorve. It ahould be understeod that overseas migration for these people is of vital importance if we are to improve the care and main- tenance of those who are constantly arriving from behind the iron cur- tain, and if we are to continue to eacourage then to come. Unless the outlet of migration is kept open, the escaped people will stagnate, in camps or institutions in Europe, under miserable and hopeless condi- tions which will discourage those at home from risking their lives to come over to freedom. Migration ie the key to their continued flow from the East. lie are moving under existing authority to meet these needs. Section 101(A) of the Mutual Security Act authorized the President in broad terma to use matual security funda for the assistance of persons escaping fros the satellites or from Russia. Acting under that author- ity, the Director for Mutual Security ie allocating $4,300,000 in this fiscal year toward a temporary program designed to provice, on a lia- ited scale, sone of the kinds of special assistance needed. These funda,