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I WANT the world to know there can be no compromise." So ran one of the last messages scribbled by Premier Imre Nagy in the bloody days of November 1956, when Soviet tanks were stamping out the last flames of the Hungarian revolt, and Nagy himself was a subject of...
President Eisenhower led the U.S. protest against the Kremlin's execution of Hungarian Revolutionaries Imre Nagy, Pal Maleter and two comrades (see FOREIGN NEWS) with his strongest anti-Communist statement since Budapest. "I cannot think of any incident that could have, and has, more shocked the civilized world," said...
In Washington the Justice Department waited watchfully, hopeful that the reopened sore could be healed again by legal means. Preparing for the next move, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis. Meanwhile...
The executions of ex-Premier Imre Nagy, General Pal Maleter and two other lesser leaders of the Hungarian revolt were in wanton defiance of public pledges (see below) given by the puppet Communist government maintained by Russian tanks in Budapest. The official announcement of the executions by the Hungarian government...
The story goes on, and goes pretty far wrong at the end, but up to this point, in scene after scene, the spectator's heart is touched with recognitions. Moreover, the acting in all the major roles is wonderfully full and natural, and for that and for all the...