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Finally the dire need of the Hungarian refugees became a political football when the Chairman of the Combined Charities pistol-whipped the Council into letting World Universities Service handle the funds for the special relief drive. "If WUS doesn't get the money, I won't run the drive," he said, and added that "you can't tell me how to spend my money." Regardless of the merits of WUS, Combined Charities is and should remain an advisory and administrative arm of the Council...
...Central Committee took the unprecedented step of sending the Sixth Five Year Plan back to the planners with demands for revision of unrealistic targets, "a decrease in the volume of capital investment, and curtailment of the number of construction projects." Carefully unmentioned was the fact that the Polish and Hungarian revolts had created unexpected new drains on Russia's resources, especially coal...
...were plainly workingmen, seized every chance to prove that if they could not be damned as rich reactionaries, they could at least be branded as fascists. L'Humanité delightedly front-paged a story claiming that one Frenchman had discovered an ex-Gestapo torturer among them. More purposefully, Hungarian-speaking comrades were smuggled into the camps to spread tales of alarm. They told refugees that they would get lower pay than Frenchmen in any job they were given, that if they accepted work at all, they would lose their refugee status and any chance of moving to another...
...Harvard method, is being used in Britain to teach English to newly arrived Hungarian miners. It was also used on Channel 2 for teaching French and Spanish...
...President's Committee for Hungarian Relief has chosen the "Language Research" method to teach English to Hungarian refugees. The method was begun by University Professor I.A. Richards and Miss Christine Gibson of the Graduate School of Education...