Operation Safe Haven (1957): Difference between revisions

'''Operation Safe Haven''', also known as '''Operation Mercy''', was a refugee relief and resettlement operation executed by the [[United States]] following the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Markowitz|first=Arthur A.|date=Spring 1973|title=Humanitarianism versus Restrictionism: The United States and the Hungarian Refugees|url=|journal=The International Migration Review|volume=7:1|pages=46–59 (48, 49, 58)|via=JSTOR}}</ref> It successfully evacuated over 27,000 Hungarian refugees to the United States over a period of 90 days, with an additional 11,000 being settled, also in the US, in the following year. <ref name=":0" /> Operation Safe Haven was the most significant European humanitarian airlift since the [[Berlin Blockade|Berlin Airlift]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1011761145|title=The United States Air Force and Humanitarian Airlift Operations 1947-1994.|last=Haulman, Daniel L.|first=|date=1998|publisher=Defense Technical Information Center|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=245|oclc=1011761145}}</ref>. The operation, ordered by Pres. [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] was executed almost simultaneouly to that launched by [[Elvis Presley]] at the closer of his last appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, andas broadcast live on January 6, 1957 and which eventually covered a quarter of a million refugees and their settlement in Austria and England.