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...wife. More women and children. More people." Then he fainted. The policeman cranked his old-fashioned telephone, muttered a few words. A siren wailed and within minutes the able-bodied men and women of Rechnitz were mobilized to aid another group of refugees from the other side of the Hungarian border, offering succor, shelter, food, warmth and welcome...
Winter winds and stricter regulations on the Hungarian side have cut the nightly flow across the border to a mere trickle, but even this trickle adds up to about 700 refugees a week who must be cared for, along with those already there. Last week Austria's Interior Minister Oskar Helmer complained...
...having to ask. beg or haggle for every dollar and over the acceptance of every refugee." His complaint is directed chiefly against the U.S., which, if it took in as many refugees in proportion to its size and wealth as has Austria, would have to "admit 500,000 Hungarian refugees instead of 24,000." Most of the 65,000 still in Austria refuse to go on to other European countries, he added, for fear "they will lose their chance of being admitted to the U.S.": under present U.S. law, Hungarians are no longer regarded as refugees once they have left...
...that passes for reporting in every other Communist society. Instead, Warsaw's dailies and literary weeklies bitterly attacked Russia and Poland's Communist Party for the miseries of everyday existence in postwar Poland, thus played a leading part in bringing the Gomulka government to power. During the Hungarian uprisings, Nowa Kultura (New Culture), a literary weekly published by the Writers' Union, and the Communist youth organ, Po Prostu (Speaking Frankly), ran staff-written stories that denounced Russian intervention, ranked with Western press coverage for honest, vivid reporting...
Harvard has admitted its first Hungarian refugee. He is Adam Makkai, a 21-year-old former student at the University of Budapest, who has entered the College as a junior...