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This week, as the Budapest Central Council ordered a two-day general strike to begin Monday night, the government dissolved all workers' councils, declared a state of martial law, and cut off all communication with the outside. The struggle for power went on in hapless Hungary...
Italian headline writers found a welcoming name for 54-year-old Soviet Polit-burocrat Mikhail Suslov: "The Butcher of Budapest." The butcher, accompanied by Russia's ranking woman Communist, Ekaterina Furtseva, was on his way to Rome to lay down the line to the eighth congress of the Italian Communist Party, which until the events in Hungary claimed 2,130,000 members (probable current membership: less than 1,500,000). Suslov is the least known of the top half dozen Kremlin leaders, but what is known of him is not endearing: he is a flinty, ascetic Stalinist, a specialist...
...Hungary, however, came harder. Early last week Hungarian Foreign Minister Imre Horvath somewhat evasively announced that the puppet government of Janos Kadar was ready to discuss plans for U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's proposed trip to Hungary. When Hammarskjold replied that he was prepared to arrive in Budapest on Dec. 16, Horvath equably relayed this information to his government...
Within 24 hours Hammarskjold had his answer-via radio broadcast. "The Hammarskjold visit," said Radio Budapest flatly, "will not take place on Dec. 16.'' The Kadar government did not trouble to send the Secretary-General a formal reply...
Across the snow-swept plains of below-zero Alberta, a grain farmer drove 75 miles to Calgary to place an overseas telephone call to Budapest. At the expense of the Calgary Herald, Mike Kadar, 47, an immigrant from Hungary 28 years ago, sought to talk, brother to brother, to none other than Janos Kadar, No. 1 stooge of the Soviet puppet regime in Hungary. He had small hopes of shoring up younger brother Janos' spine, but other Hungarian-Canadians had besought Mike Kadar to try to intercede in behalf of their valiant relatives still writhing under Russian guns...