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...Vienna one day last week a Telex machine, ominously silent for almost a week, suddenly sprang to life. Slowly and with much stuttering an unknown keyboard operator in Budapest hammered out the following message...
...BUDAPEST IS IN FERMENT TODAY. HUGE MASS DEMONSTRATION HANGS OVER CITY. TEN THOUSAND WORKERS FROM INDUSTRIAL AREAS ARE MARCHING ON PARLIAMENT. RUSSIAN AGENTS TRIED TO STOP THEM BUT HAVE BEEN BRUSHED ASIDE. THEY BLOCK ALL BRIDGES AND SPECIAL PATROLS ARE AROUND PARLIAMENT BUILDING...
Both sides faced the other with harsh alternatives. Said a Soviet commander, listening to a Budapest workers' committee presenting its demands: "We approve of the right to strike, but we have many ways of bringing it to an end." Soviet field police seized the bank accounts of struck firms, arrested leading Hungarian journalists, imposed tight electric-power and food controls. Strikers had their own methods of enforcing the strike: they fired shots in front of buses that resumed running, and with hand grenades drove back workers who appeared at one factory...
Workers' councils, mindful of shortening supplies of food and the lack of heat, met with Soviet commanders. A return to work, under certain conditions, might have been arranged but for the news which flashed through Budapest one day last week: the Russians were deporting Hungarians. Soviet police had been seen going from house to house arresting young rebels. Now the grapevine reported that at least 180 boxcar loads of Hungarians had been deported in a few days. Notes dropped by young deportees along the railroad tracks had been picked up. One of these, copied and circulated all over Budapest...
...BUDAPEST THERE WERE BATTLES THIS NIGHT . . . FOUGHT FOR 74 MINUTES AFTER MIDNIGHT SHOT . . . NOBODY COULD . . . GUN FIRING . . . HUNGARIAN JOURNALISTS HAD MEETING AND ALL PROTESTED . . . THATS ALL AT THIS MOMENT . . . SORRY MADE MISTAKES BUT MY HAND WOUNDED...