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...Hungary a gallant, leaderless rebellion against Russia's iron rule gave promise of success-until Russia turned its retreating tanks around and set out to crush the revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD CRISIS: Appalling Events | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...East gave Russia the chance to muffle the sounds of its own savage conduct in Hungary. With bland cynicism, it lectured Britain and France on aggression, proposed joining with the U.S. in fighting Egypt's invaders (a proposal the U.S. called "unthinkable"), and talked of using "force to crush the aggressors" in the Middle East. 'Bulganin went further: he asked Britain how it would feel "if she herself had been attacked by more powerful states possessing every kind of modern destructive weapon" and added that "there are countries now" that could do the job from a distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD CRISIS: Appalling Events | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...hope to crush Nasser without much bloodshed. If we do, we will be rid of an ambitious dictator who not only threatens our oil interests and our Suez Canal status and stings our pride, but with his ambitious Arab nationalism threatens the whole security of European civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Danger in the Jungle | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...Where is NATO? The UN? Where are the Americans? The British? The French? We listened to your radios. We believed in freedom. There is no time now for conferences and discussion. Give us arms. Send the bombers. Crush the Soviet terror which is about to end our hard-won liberty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUNGARY | 11/10/1956 | See Source »

Leroy Holmes will provide the music from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. for the big crush in the Dillon Gym. The Big Three Spree is sponsored by the Orange Key, in honor of Princeton's football glories...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Serenade Banned By Harvard Band As Tiger Tenses | 11/10/1956 | See Source »

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