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Moving swiftly, the Communists arrested scores of leaders, broke up demonstrations, suppressed news of those riots that defied control (e.g., in Hanyang). "Those popular manifestations are clear and unmistakable evidences," said Hu, "to prove that the Chinese Communist regime . . . is as unstable and as shaky as was the Hungarian regime of Rakosi and Gero...
...trains run on time, nightclubs have reopened, and little boys and girls scamper along the cobbled banks of the Danube. Just now, the country swarms with Austrian and German hunters who pay up to $1,200 for the privilege of shooting at the local stags. But at the airport Hungarian troops are all over the place. And Hungarian troops certainly are not the only ones around the city. The Soviets are still there. The invaders' tanks and heavily armed soldiers no longer man the streets and bridges. They are camped now in the hills of Buda...
...another five years beginning next April, Bachelor Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden was the only candidate for the world's most prestigious and lucrative ($55,000 a year taxfree) civil service job. Though the Russians had been peeved over his role in the U.N.'s handling of the Hungarian revolt, everyone acknowledged that this reticent and precise diplomatic technician, who never exceeds his authority but never hides behind its limitations if he sees a way of being useful, had done a good job in a frustrating position. He does so by hewing to a set of maxims. Among them...
...newcomer to the Cambridge scene, Rosenborg's work has never come closer than Provincetown despite some three hundred exhibitions both in this country and abroad. Displayed here, to the delightful if somewhat dubious accompaniment of a console offering Rossini's Barber of Seville at one moment and Brahms' Hungarian Rhapsodies the next, these unpretentious canvases gain much from understatement...
These developments are the inevitable products of a series of recent events which have cast a shadow over America's reputation across the Atlantic. There remains, even after a year of second-thoughts, considerable disappointment in Washington's handling of the Hungarian revolution. Charges of hypocrisy and cowardice still arise when the revolt is discussed, and although it is generally admitted that we could not safely have done much more, many observers continue to feel that we should have, that we might have taken some risk...