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These comparisons do not tell the whole story, for they leave out the way Hungary's brave defiance of superior odds has seized the world's imagination. But in Poland, say all reports, the fires of freedom smolder as hotly as in Hungary. They are kept in check by the way in which Communist Gomulka has achieved a provisional and perilous independence. The stir and prod of the Polish people on Gomulka, and the concessions he must make, are the best chance that Poland will achieve a peaceful transition from puppet state to the Finland model of cautious...
...Russian army poised on West Germany's borders. Von Brentano's grim recommendation: the peoples of Eastern Europe must be discouraged from "taking dramatic action which might have disastrous consequences for themselves." In other words, sadly but realistically, Von Brentano considered that the Hungarians were too brave for their own good. NATO's new Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak glumly called the Hungarian revolt "the collective suicide of a whole people...
...news papers snatched away and torn to shreds. There was water, gas and electric power, but no traffic police. Some Soviet tanks stood roped off in planted positions, but armored cars patrolled continuously. In front of the National Theater, Sunday gathering place for Budapest, an old man, made brave by wine, smashed his empty bottle against a Soviet tank. Police rushed in, beat up the old man with rifle butts. This was too much for the crowd. They roughed up the police. The Russians fired a machine gun over their heads...
Phyllis Smith's poems are three brave attempts to make words into sights and songs and children's voice. Her hard, heavy lines and sheer, skimming ones are packed with consonants, alliterative even driving, to suggest the twist of a bronze by Henry Moore or the voice of a counter tenor, or a child's playing. Even more than the others, Reclining Figure is of substantial pauses that might better be heard than read...
They continue to resist not only because they are brave, but because they have to. The workers' councils, the citizens' groups, the army units dare not let the Kadar regime regain full control of the country. They cannot overthrow the Red Army, but their strength lies in the fact that neither can the Russians mine coal in army tanks. Some kind of agreed or understood armistice between workers' council and regime, protecting the Hungarians against reprisals in return for a resumption of stability, is what the rebels must continue to fight for. One thing...