Refugee Record

When patchwork U.S. arrangements for handling Hungarian refugees strained at the seams under the pressure of the Hungarian crisis last November, President Eisenhower named Tracy S. Voorhees, New York lawyer and onetime (1949-50) Army Under Secretary, as his personal representative for Hungarian refugee relief. Voorhees, aided by a hard-working committee, quietly stitched away on the assignment for three months, then resigned because "the emergency phase" of Hungarian resettlement had ended. By last week it was clear how well Voorhees &.Co. had done their job: of the 29,000 Hungarians received at New Jersey's Camp Kilmer, 27,700 have been processed and sent, under sponsorship of voluntary civic and religious agencies, to their new lives in places ranging from New York City (with 1,824 resettled refugees) to San Marino, Calif, (with one).

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