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...Meantime correspondents were building up pressure at the Nickelsdorf frontier barrier. First to get through was the Daily Express' Sydney Smith. When the guards lifted the barrier for another purpose, Smith gunned his poised car, shot past them and, despite their shouts to halt, lit out for Budapest. Next day other newsmen persuaded the guards to let them through in cars and as hitchhikers on Hungarian army trucks. In Budapest they set up shop in the Duna Hotel, a dingy fleabag on the Danube. There they got a shaky warning from the New York Post's Seymour Freidin...
...shortage of hands, the A.P. sent George Boultwood from its Bonn bureau to Budapest to join its resident man, Endre Marton. Boultwood took along his 17-year-old son George Peter, who was soon filing his own byline stories from the Hungarian capital. The U.P.'s Anthony J. Cavendish scored a feat by covering the Polish rebellion in Warsaw, then flying into Hungary with a Polish plane carrying plasma. He landed 33 miles south of Budapest, hitchhiked to the suburbs, had to walk the last five miles. He sent out a fast-moving 2,000-word eyewitnesser...
...words in the first four days of hostilities, all through two weary, sleepless operators, the only men left in the cable office after Israel's call-up. This week, as the Russians launched their all-out attack on Hungary, the correspondents' problem was not getting into Budapest but getting out. Many made it to Vienna before the Soviet drive began. Those who did not took shelter in the U.S. and British legations, or joined a convoy of diplomats' families only to be held up near the Austrian border by surly Soviet tankmen. A Russian tank major summed...
...gloomy house in the Hungarian village of Felsopeteny, 45 miles northwest of Budapest, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, free from prison these 15 months but not a free man, sat alone at dinner. People in the area knew the house as an atomic-research station of some mysterious sort: that was the explanation the Communists had given for the heavy armed guard that surrounded it. Mindszenty's guards paced about uneasily, and a Russian tank stood near by. Suddenly, out of the darkness a small band of young revolutionaries appeared, brandishing machine guns. Before their gun barrels, Mindszenty's guards...
Blessed Weapons. Mindszenty's rescuers whisked him to a nearby military barracks, where everyone broke out wine to celebrate his release. Early the next morning three armored vehicles escorted the cardinal over the battle-torn road to Budapest. In towns and villages along the way, people threw flowers before his car. The new Nagy government declared that the cardinal's trial and imprisonment had been entirely illegal, that his ecclesiastical rights as Primate of Hungary were restored. Before a cheering crowd at his palace, Mindszenty appeared, a small Hungarian tricolor pinned to his cassock. His ordeal had left...