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...seemed to be laid to rest that the Com munists were the legitimate heirs of the French Revolution. Anti-Communists of all shades-not just the right-joined in spontaneous demonstrations in Paris. Marseille and Lyon. In Bordeaux they tore down the nameplate on Place Stalingrad, renamed it Place Budapest. Flags flew at half-staff. The National Assembly broke into tumult and fighting after Communists jeered a resolution extending sympathy to the Hungarian rebels. "History will judge those who do not associate themselves with this homage!" cried Foreign Minister Christian Pineau...
...wished he had not, defected once again. ''Intervention [in Hungary] was a crime," he cried in a four-page protest in the anti-Communist L'Express. "The Red Army fired on an entire people. And the crime for me is not only the tank attack on Budapest. It is also that it was rendered possible by twelve-years of terror and stupidity. I condemn entirely and without reserve the Soviet aggression...
Soviet might decreed that Budapest should die. Free Budapest refused...
After a week of unleashed terror, the new government of treacherous Janos Kadar was still unable to control the situation. Fighting had died down to sporadic outbreaks as surviving Freedom Fighters went underground. But the country's railroads, factories and mines were at a standstill, the city of Budapest without light, heat, transport, communications or food, with thousands of unburied dead lying in its rubble-filled streets and fires burning in hundreds of buildings. At week's end, in a desperate attempt to gain popular support Janos Kadar went to the length of consulting deposed Premier Imre Nagy...
Telephone lines between Vienna and Budapest went dead next day, but Radio Rakoczi, identified by Radio Free Europe monitors as a mobile rebel station, became a regular station, gained in strength, and reported the stirring battles of the "Seventh Patriots." Two Russian tanks were set on fire by youths with gas bombs in Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Street. On Izabella Street grenades thrown from windows scattered a squad of marching Russian infantry. A few minutes later tanks and artillery came rolling down the street, shot up the whole neighborhood. In one house the Russians found the 13-year...