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Cease & Desist. Against Russia's attack in the U.N., the U.S. planned another counterpunch. At a special U.N. session this week, U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge would propose a resolution calling upon Russia and the puppet Kadar government to "desist from repressive measures against the Hungarian people." Nobody had much hope that the resolution would help the Hungarians. What it might do is to keep alive in the world's mind and heart the awareness of Soviet cruelty and treachery. Such a reminder may be necessary when the Russian delegation starts filling the air with denunciations...
...Mikoyan was in the Kremlin group that flew to Warsaw last fall to smash the insurgent Gomulka -and found themselves encircled in Warsaw's Belvedere Palace by Gomulka's forces and compelled to agree to the Poles' demands. He was in the thick of the Hungarian action, where his slick manipulation was not enough: it took a tank-led invasion. The final repression was the Red army's idea, and at least once Marshal Zhukov showed himself relentless when the others hesitated. "We tried all we could to find another solution," Mikoyan said later...
...laws. Time after time, the 85th Congress moved only halfheartedly when it moved at all. Example: it finally got around to correcting certain inequities in the McCarran-Walter immigration law, but its changes fell far short of those urged by the Administration and left some 25,000 freedom-fighting Hungarian refugees to the U.S. in a sort of legal limbo as "parolees...
...tyranny. In June 1956. at a time when the rest of the world was yet only dimly aware of the courageous activities of dissident writers of Budapest's Petofi Club, Kantor gave them guarded support in the Communist Berliner Zeitun'g. After the Petofi protest became the Hungarian revolt, all Eastern Europe was buried under the snowdrifts of renewed cultural repression. Bleakly, Kantor declined to sign a petition ordered by Party Boss Walter Ulbricht condemning the role of the Petofi Club in touching off the Hungarian revolt. The trial last March of his fellow professor. Wolfgang Harich...
...Last Illusion. Over Radio Free Berlin he explained: "I postponed this decision for years and years in the desperate hope that the surfeit of rudeness, stupidity, violence and injustice, the flooding lies and suppression of spiritual freedom were only convulsions of a transitional period." But "the Hungarian tragedy-so heart-sickening and nerve-rending, particularly for old Communists," had destroyed "the last hope, the last illusion. While we believed we were fighting for freedom and right and against fascist barbarism, fascism and barbarism have risen again behind us, in word and deed and spirit...