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...Heroes. Around the world as the Christmas festoons went up, the contrasting impact began to show. Only last spring, Iceland (pop. 158,000), lulled by Soviet coos of coexistence, had asked U.S. troops and airmen to pull out of the strategic air base of Keflavik; last week Iceland considered Budapest and reversed itself, asking the U.S. troops and airmen to please stay...
President Richard Nixon that foreshadowed new U.S. economic aid (see below), British and French bitterness eased. Over all, Budapest cast its dark shadow. "Communist prestige," said a French Foreign Office spokesman, " has dropped to an alltime low in Europe...
...stand on the Middle East made the U.S. fit and qualified to condemn Soviet barbarity in Hungary. Such condemnation was the U.S.'s sole weapon, "since the alternative was action on our part which might initiate the third and ultimate world war." The Freedom Fighters of Budapest, said Nixon, won a great victory in the battle for men's minds. "The lesson is etched in the mind and seared in the souls of all mankind. Can it be seriously suggested that any nation in the world today would trust the butchers of Budapest...
...rent out of student-council funds, set to work scrubbing the floors, hanging curtains, stocking the larder. Soon a grateful Hungarian butcher, his wife and five children moved in. For Otto Bauernhuber, who just a few weeks before was cutting beef to feed his fellow rebels in Budapest, the warmth of new friendship and the brightness of his new home were marvelous if bewildering realities...
...doing its earnest, if at times disorganized, best to meet the Hungarians' needs, and to make its position clear to the world. When Russian tanks drew up before the U.S. legation in Budapest to intimidate Hungarians who were seeking American aid, Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy called in the Russian embassy's Counsel Sergei Striganov in Washington, condemned the Soviet action, called it a reflection of the "deplorable situation in Hungary." demanded that his message be brought "immediately to the attention of the Soviet government...