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When Communist Chief Janos Kadar told Hungary's Party Congress in Budapest last week that Soviet troops would remain in the country "as long as the international situation demands it," the guest of honor pulled off the earphones through which he had been listening to a translation of the speech. Asked by a neighbor if there was something wrong with the set, Nikita Khrushchev replied: "I know the story...
Later, breaking away from the droning Congress speeches to tour a Budapest engineering works, he told factory hands: "Czar Nicholas did not hesitate to send troops to put down the Hungarian revolution of 1848 . . . How could we, the working people of the Soviet Union, suffer our troops to look on indifferently in 1956 when the best sons of your people were being hanged? If we had not come to your aid, we would have been called fools, and history would not have forgiven us this foolishness...
...Zealand's Sir Leslie Munro, the U.N.'s special representative on the Hungarian question, reported that eight Hungarian patriots have been secretly tried and executed recently and "there is imminent possibility of further executions." Sir Leslie noted with scathing constraint that the Communists barred him from visiting Budapest on grounds that the 1956 uprising was "a matter of domestic jurisdiction," yet continued to spread the "fanciful" and contradictory story that "the uprising was instigated by foreign powers...
...Moscow from a brief Black Sea vacation, and made it back from Moscow's airport to the Kremlin courtyard in an eight-seat Soviet helicopter, which he pronounced "roomier and more comfortable" than Ike's Sikorsky. Next on Khrushchev's travel plans: a flight to Budapest to attend that mockery of "domestic jurisdiction," the Hungarian Communist Party Congress...
...BUDAPEST, Hungary, Nov. 30--With Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev an intent listener, Janos Kadar declared today that Soviet troops are staying in Hungary...