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...Specifics. In the bitter aftermath of Budapest, world Communism desperately needs a new and recognizable success-and it is in the Middle East that such a success seems to beckon. Therefore, said Ike, spelling out the way U.S. collective-security planning had helped in Western Europe, Greece, Turkey and the Far East, "it is now essential that the U.S. should manifest through joint action of the President and the Congress our determination to assist those nations of the Mideast area which may desire that assistance." That was why he had come before them to request stand-by congressional authority...
...next three days the First Party Secretary was inexplicably missing from the round of Moscow parties, but at week's end he turned up at a reception for a delegation of East German Communists. Glass in hand, Khrushchev explained that he had been down to Budapest fighting off the "imperialists" and establishing a strong Stalinist line...
...Comrades. As for Hungary, the best way to make it appear that everything was under control in Budapest was for Khrushchev to make an on the spot visit. He did so in the company of Georgy Malenkov (Communists seem to travel in pairs these days, either to refute rumors of factionalism, or to make each other share the guilt). It was at the Supreme Soviet meeting two years ago that Malenkov confessed his errors and was downgraded from First Premier to Electric Power boss...
...Budapest, Khrushchev set a hard line: only those workers, peasants and intellectuals loyal to the regime were entitled to any freedom; a promise of religious freedom was hedged by a demand that the church preserve a "loyal" attitude; "stern punishment" was threatened to "the counter revolutionaries"; "certain unemployment" would have to be faced; "various public figures and nonpartisan experts" would be consulted, but no minority party would be tolerated in Hungary; ousted Premier Imre Nagy was denounced as a traitor...
Last July, after nearly a decade of Red tyranny, Rakosi himself was forced to resign as party boss after a youth club in Budapest proclaimed openly that "it is high time an end be made to this regime of bureaucrats and gendarmes." Three months later that wish came to reality with the fury of gunfire in Budapest's streets...