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Perhaps this was all Khrushchev (or Tito) had in mind at this point, knowing the offer would be rejected. But more intriguing was what the proposal indicated about the Tito-Khrushchev relationship. Since the Hungarian revolt, Moscow seems so unsure of how to handle the ferment in its Eastern European empire that it has publicly conceded ex-Foe Tito a hand in the Balkans. But how much of a hand? Proposing a grouping in which Tito would obviously be the biggest frog was calculated to make Tito swell up. But proposing one that did not stand much chance...
They also passed out numerous propaganda pamphlets in several different languages. Abrams said that some of these pamphlets claimed only Fascists and criminals took part in the fighting. One claimed Hungarian youths who fled to the West are now being held prisoners; another attacked the Voice of America as the real instigator of the trouble; and still another told how "wonderful" things are now in Hungary under the Kadar puppet government...
...Assembly had already passed eleven resolutions on Hungary, including those condemning Russia's brutal suppression of the Hungarian rebellion last fall and demanding that the Soviets withdraw. The Soviets ignored them all. But to keep the crime of Hungary before world opinion, the U.S rallied 37 nations to sponsor still another resolution...
...deed." And the reason the subject was introduced again was that Puppet Premier Janos Kadar has kept none of the glib promises he made after Soviet tanks crushed the revolt last November. Soviet troops have not been withdrawn; nor has the promise of no reprisals been honored. From incontrovertible Hungarian Communist sources-their radios and newspapers-Lodge submitted the names of 1,768 Hungarians punished by the regime, including 23 executions and 51 death sentences...
Through this damning factual indictment, Hungary's chief delegate, Peter Mod, sat impassively. Nor did he answer when the Uruguayan delegate asked him to explain his own "magic metamorphosis" from last October, when Mod himself led a Revolutionary Committee of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry that had demanded "liberation" and condemned Russia's "unwarranted interference...