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...those fighting for their liberty in Hungary: "What can I do?" "Why don't we act?" The International Rescue Committee has, for 20 years, specialized in providing the many kinds of desperately needed help for those who have escaped from totalitarian brutality. We are already helping these brave and desperate souls. We wait in readiness for others who will yet join them. As soon as President Eisenhower announced that the U.S. would open its doors to 5,000 of these refugees, I.R.C. arranged to play a large role in their arrival and resettlement here...
...flood tide of criticism began to subside, ex-Ambassador Joseph Grew, RFE's boss (as chairman of Free Europe Committee, Inc.), angrily fired off a statement charging: "It is an insult to the brave Hungarian people to suggest that they have responded to any other influence than their innate love of liberty...
...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...
What made the smashing of free Hungary different from other Soviet depredations? For one thing, the West had been an intimate eyewitness of Hungary's brave struggle for national independence, and had shared Hungarian joy at seeing Soviet tanks withdraw in apparently accepted defeat. Guarded hopes had changed to optimism. After all, perhaps the weak state of the Soviet satellite empire, forcing the Kremlin to come to terms with a national Communism in Poland, might also persuade the Kremlin to come to terms with a national regime in Hungary. Instead, the exceedingly swift development of anti-Communist sentiment...
...George III. "It doesn't make the slightest difference whether a great family took part in the Crusades or not," said aristocratic Count Emmanuel de Las Cases. "It is still a great family." But very few French aristocrats were able last week to put so brave a front on the matter. The fact was that the patrician pedigrees of 250 aristocratic families had just had a great fall...