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...Kremlin's Middle East maneuvers had the advantage, and perhaps the design, of diverting attention from a far more important event: the gallant and tenacious resistance of Hungary's patriots, the most important revolt in 39 years of Communist rule. The fact that the whole nation rebelled could not be concealed, veiled, or transformed by slanders, and the entire world could hear the echoes of the savage repression. Even party comrades were repelled. Other satellites stirred. It was necessary to create new diversions. With a flourish of phrases ("faithful to its policy of ensuring peace") Radio Moscow announced...
...loud and soft passages; obviously he had learned his scores by heart-no timpanist could miss his cannonball cues. But sometimes he was vague. Several times, the baton flew from his small, pudgy hand (he picked up fresh ones from a supply on his music stand). It was a gallant try, but when it was over, one question remained: Why subject Joey, the orchestra and the audience to an experience that was not inspiring to any of them...
Surrender Reversed. Given so much time to brace itself, even a second-class army should have been able to wipe out an unsupported landing by two battalions of paratroopers. Instead, the Egyptian army left Port Said insufficiently garrisoned and such troops as were there, after a gallant but ineffective initial resistance, rapidly became disorganized. By afternoon of the first day of fighting General Mohammed Riad, governor of Port Said, was ready to talk surrender (a fact Anthony Eden announced to a cheering House of Commons). But when he telephoned Cairo for permission, he was told: No surrender; Port Said must...
...Tragedy begins trivially. A bombinating Fleet Street bounder-Tulbach Browne of the Daily Thresh-has come to report on Pharamaul, and by a familiar "liberal" reversal of traditional loyalties, he sees his own country automatically in the wrong. The truth, as he reports it to his paper, is that gallant young Chief Dinamaula is being frustrated by gin-swilling British officials. As a grand gesture, Reporter Browne provokes Dinamaula into asking for a drink at an all-white hotel. He is refused, and in his humiliation mutters something about his hopes of marrying a white girl. In Pharamaul, that...
...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...