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FugitiveBy WARD CANNEL Newspaper Enterprise Assn. NEW YORK — According to the dossier, the small, red-cheeked man blinking in the early morning sun was Janus Pave Ik a (Czech, truck driver, age 39, married, two children). Tentatively he began to descend the steps from the giant transport plane toward the snowy U. S. soil of Idle-wild Airport and the outstretched hand of Kubh Tropin.For almost all of the 800,000 refugees from European tyranny brought into this country under official U. S. auspices since the end of World War II, Mrs. Tropin has been the lady with the lamp. It is a by-product of her job as New York officer in charge of the Intergovernmental Carrtmittee for European Migration that she can extend a welcome in almost every language spoken in this country today.“Good day,” Pavelka sakl. I speak a little English. I was in the RAF lor pari of the war.” While the great rush of European migration is over, and mostwith U. N. refugee officials, and making sure that the refugees themselves move easily to their new homes. It is not unusual for Mrs. Tropin to be awakened at 3 a. m. by the police who have found an ICEM refugee lost and unable to remember the name of his hotel or sponsoring agency.“As soon as the guards were gone, Pavelka said, “1 took my wife, two children and brother-in-law ot the airfield and put them in a single-engine, two-seat plane, started the engine and taxied down the runway, waving happily to the police who had no idea of what was going on.”In the course of the years, Mrs. Tropin says, a few refugees have turned out to be trouble makers. But she can count, she says, disil-luskmmenls like Ihem on the finger's of one hand. The hundreds with whom she corresponds are without exception wonderful people,IContinuous ServiDio! RE 3-3012—106 W. 1
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Petersburg Progress Index
Petersburg, Virginia, US
Tue, Feb 12, 1963
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