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...planes at the airport, among them, it was reported, Russia's First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and such wanted Hungarian notables as ex-Premier Hegedus and AVH Boss Piros. But, as the reports of Russian troop movements firmed, as rebel center Györ was cut off from Budapest, as Czech radio stations jammed the rebel stations, the Hungarians suddenly knew that their worst fears were confirmed. They had been tricked...
From the moment that U.S. correspondents had begun coming into free Budapest the rebels had never ceased to ask, "When are the Americans coming?" During the middle of the fighting a Hungarian had lifted up his son so that the child might touch a U.S. flag on a correspondent's car. Again and again, innocent of world affairs, they had asked if arms would come soon from America. Said one: "If the Russians come back, we can't hold out forever...
...Russians were coming back, and many Americans were leaving Budapest. Sadly the Hungarians watched them go. They had no stake in the revolution; they were at peace with the mighty Soviet Union and hoped to remain so-Hungary's bloodshed was only a drop of what the world would suffer in a total war. The explanation was not one which Hungarians were in a mood to understand. A convoy of U.S. diplomatic women and children and civilians left Budapest for Austria. Correspondent after correspondent hit the road, swinging precariously through the roadblocks. Said TIME Reporter Edward Clark...
...over Western Europe poured into Vienna and headed for the Hungarian border, minus Hungarian visas, which were almost impossible to get. At a manure-strewn Austrian border village named Nickelsdorf, they grabbed interviews with escaping travelers from Hungary, and pleaded with Hungarian border guards to let them in. In Budapest all but one of the handful of Western correspondents had to rely on Westerners heading for the Austrian border to carry their copy out; telephones, cables and telegraph lines were cut. The exception: the London Daily Mail's Noel Barber, who had a car, enabling him to commute regularly...
Next day in Budapest, Barber made the mistake of violating a rule he had set for himself: no travel at night. With the London Daily Express' Sefton Delmer and an interpreter, he set out to tour the city. Russian machine gunners opened up on the car, almost cut it in two, crumpled...