07/12/1966
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"Once again, it stamps the mark of failure on a regime when many of its citizens voluntarily choose to leave the land of their birth for a more hopeful home in America."
"The lesson of our times is sharp and clear in this movement of people from one land to another."
"The Federal Government will work closely with these agencies in their tasks of charity and brotherhood."
"I am asking the Department of State to seek through the Swiss Government immediately the agreement of the Cuban Government in a request to the President of the International Red Cross Committee."