European refugee problems, 1959

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"The Commission arrived at three central conclusions: (1) that the refugee problem in Europe must be treated as a collective Western responsibility, (2) that while there would always be a refugee influx, the problem of residual refugees in Europe could be solved by the same kind of concerted action that succeeded in resettling some 170,000 Hungarian refugees in under a year; and (3) that much could be done to improve the reception of refugees arriving in the Free World, to standardize eligibility procedures, and to expedite the process of resettlement"--Introduction.