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...been deluged by two questions ever since I returned from Budapest, where I made arrangements to place medicines, food, clothing and other essentials in the hands of those fighting for their liberty in Hungary: "What can I do?" "Why don't we act?" The International Rescue Committee has, for 20 years, specialized in providing the many kinds of desperately needed help for those who have escaped from totalitarian brutality. We are already helping these brave and desperate souls. We wait in readiness for others who will yet join them. As soon as President Eisenhower announced that the U.S. would...
...Hoover Jr. reiterated before the U.N. General Assembly later in the week. But no one in Washington thought that this quiet victory settled anything permanently. For one thing, the Kremlin was throwing dust in all directions; e.g., at week's end, almost as if there had been no Budapest, no threat of desert war, the Russians proposed a new disarmament plan, which they couched in boasts that they could sweep across Western Europe-and punctuated by a new high-level A-bomb test...
...Netherlands' Olympic Chairman Johannes Linthorst Homan sadly replied: "In our optimism and our perhaps childish idealism we kept hoping that goodness would be recognized and that our playing the game could contribute to the establishment of a certain understanding . . . When the radio told us of what overcame Budapest through a cynical violation of all that is sacred to men, I wondered if going to Melbourne could have any sense. We are sportsmen, but we are not soft in the head, are we?'' The Netherlands' Olympic Committee answered that question by withdrawing from the games, donating...
...Budapest last week LIFE brought unforgettable pictures that added up to the most eloquent report of Hungary's bloody fight against tyranny. They were the work of a virtual unknown: a gentle, pudgy free-lance photographer named John Sadovy. When LIFE released six of his pictures to the Associated Press, hundreds of newspapers across the U.S. snapped up the chance to run them. Sadovy's grim shots of fury, terror and the face of death were all the more remarkable for the cold cour age he needed to take them in the most dangerous kind of combat...
...Sadovy won a Vogue contest for fashion photographers (though he had never taken a fashion picture before). He married an English girl, became a British subject. Last year the Sadovys moved to Paris, set up living quarters in a trailer. When LIFE needed an extra hand in Budapest, Sadovy's knowledge of Czech, Polish and German, plus his excellent shots of Moroccan fighting a year ago, gave him the assignment. The troublesome part of the job in Budapest, he found, was that "the tears kept running down my face and I had to keep wiping them away...