Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governments could do little, short of war, to stay Russia's brutal repression of Hungary. Diplomats could only register protests. But the people could and did respond with a revulsion that grew into a worldwide cry of anguish...
...threatened by thermonuclear weapons, any action by the free nations must be carefully thought out, and the advantages it implies weighed against the possibility of precipitating a Third World War, a war that would be so horrible as to render trifling by comparison the Russians' brutal treatment of the Hungarian patriots. With a deep sense of regret it must be conceded that a morally demanded defense of embattled Hungary is not worth a Third World War and its havoc to man kind...
...these facile anodynes are clearly inadequate to dismiss the tragedy of brutal slaughter, the blatant violation of every civilized principle of right and humanity that Soviet tanks are enacting in the streets of Budapest. Nehru the nationalist, the anti-colonialist, the champion of humanism has played a sorry card; there can be little doubt about that...
Four days later events gave terrible point to his words. It was the Russians who "stood up in action," sweeping intc Hungary with the full, brutal weight oi their armor. The cardinal took refuge in the U.S. embassy while the battle raged outside...
...restores Thomas to his rightful place. The happy ending-inconceivable in Orwell's 1984 or Kafka's The Castle-is in happy accord with the love of man which shines through Brebner's artfully simple writing. To a world in which too many already know the brutal impersonality of authoritarianism, Brebner offers his irreverent clown as the symbol of both man's frailty and dignity...