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...crisis gave place last week to the buzz of debate, the world's gaze and the world's hope were directed toward Washington as rarely before. Hungarians, almost unreasoningly, sought the U.S.'s solace and help, some believing that the mere appearance of G.I. paratroopers in Budapest would have sent the Soviets scuttling. Arabs cheered the Stars & Stripes that fluttered from U.S. cars in Cairo and Port Said. Asians talked of Eisenhower's "honesty and integrity." The U.S., dedicated to freedom for all, was surrounded by staring millions who waited upon what it said, did, planned...
...sense, the prestige of the U.S. rose as that of its rivals fell. The myth of the Moscow mass man and Marxist benevolence lay buried in the rubble of Budapest, which Pope Pius XII called "the bloodstained proof of the ends to which atheist Marxism leads." The British and French, who had sought to make policy by reviving 19th century gunboat diplomacy, had temporarily lost their credentials for world statesmanship. But in another sense, the U.S. had earned the new regard by its own conduct. In time of crisis and threat of World War III, President Eisenhower had cast...
Yugoslavia: Diminished Tito's stature as an independent, since when the chips were down he was prepared to justify Soviet tanks in Budapest...
Inside the Camp. For 19 days, while the battle of Budapest raged about them, Nagy's party found asylum with the Yugoslavs. In these 19 days, while the Russians cruelly repressed but could not crush the Hungarian rebellion, another battle was going on throughout the Communist world: a frantic attempt to fasten the guilt for the Hungarian revolt. Tito got caught in the crossfire. Pravda accused him of being an accomplice of the "counterrevolutionary" Nagy, and hinted that Tito's talk of "many roads to' socialism" underlay all the trouble. Tito, in turn, indignantly blamed Hungary...
Inside the Bus. In such a quarrel, the compromised Imre Nagy was an embarrassing guest for the Yugoslavs. Tito sent Yugoslav Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Dobrivoje Vidic to Budapest to arrange for the safe-conduct of Nagy and his party to their homes in Budapest. Vidic obtained written guarantees from the Kadar government-but not from the Russians. That evening a bus arrived at the bullet-scarred Yugoslav embassy, and the 44 Hungarians (including 16 women and 17 children) climbed in, accompanied by two Yugoslav diplomats. As they were about to move off, two Soviet military cars drove...