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...hills around Budapest, heavy Soviet guns ranged in on the city's old Parliament House. Through the already battered streets thundered big new tanks, this time protected by trotting groups of dark-visaged Asian-Russian infantrymen. Weary but infinitely brave Freedom Fighters were mercilessly cut down. Traitors who had concealed themselves, or their intentions, during Hungary's miraculous five days of freedom (see Hungary) were welcomed. In a matter of hours Moscow was able to report that Communist Premier Imre Nagy, who had defied the Kremlin, was in jail, and a new Communist government installed under Party Secretary...
Shared Joy. But the fighting did not immediately end. Clandestine radio calls testified to rebel resistance in isolated areas, both in Budapest and the provinces. And after first announcing that resistance was being crushed, Kadar took to the air to complain of continuing opposition "which might even get the upper hand." The weight and power of the Soviet assault indicated the seriousness with which the Kremlin now regarded the situation...
Others at this protest gathering include Leo Cherne, chairman of the International Rescue Committee, who arrived last Saturday from Budapest, and former Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke, committee president, who flew from Austria Wednesday. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, honorary chairman, and General William Donovan, chairman of the national committee, will also speak...
...future be on guard against hostile acts by the 1,500,000-satellite troops who have been equipped with Soviet arms as the Communist answer to NATO. This discovery comes on top of Russia's widely advertised reduction of its own army by 1,200,000 men. (The Budapest fighting also showed that the Kremlin cannot count on the loyalty of all Russian soldiers...
...Radio Budapest announced that, because "their training has been interrupted," the Hungarian Olympic Team (which includes Sandor Iharos, holder of five world records at distances from 1,500 meters to 5,000) would not travel to the games. Reported killed in fighting against Soviet troops in Hungary: Josef Csermak, 1952 Olympic hammer-throwing champion; Major Ferenc Puskas, captain of Hungary's great postwar soccer team; Gabor Benedek, runner-up in the 1952 Olympic pentathlon championship...