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...Nicholas Day. In many European countries, St. Nicholas leaves presents in the newly polished shoes of the good children, switches and pieces of coal for the naughty ones. For the 51 children still awaiting settlement at Kilmer, there were toys, dolls and candy. No such observance had been permitted Hungarian children since...
...needed a vacation. During the Middle East and Hungarian crises he had developed a nervous habit of awakening at 4 or 4:30 a.m. to jot down on a scratch pad the ideas that were flickering through his mind. When he first arrived in Augusta the wind was chilly, the skies were grey, and his golf score-usually a good thermometer of his physical and mental tone -was infuriatingly high. He suddenly realized that he was very tired, and planned a careful schedule to replenish his strength. By last week the clouds had cleared, the temperature rose into...
...month to the day since the Russians returned to crush, by treachery and murder, the first nation ever to throw off a Communist regime. At a street corner near the Danube, two Budapest housewives raised the Hungarian tricolor aloft and shouted: "Any more Hungarians? Only women wanted this time...
...with gun butts. When some of the women took cover in the British legation, a Russian tank lumbered up and stuck its gun into the open door. In his iciest Foreign Office manner, First Secretary Christopher Cope told the tank commander that he needed no Russian protection from "our Hungarian friends." Another delegation of women entered the U.S. legation a couple of blocks away, with a plea for U.N. help. Four Russian tanks roared up; Kadar's cops swung rifle butts, and legation staffers watched police carry off two truckloads of women. A Russian column charged...
...this would not be much for self-congratulation. Though it is a hard saying, the success of the Hungary revolt remains in Hungarian hands. One important side effect of this condition is that the Hungarians have "clean hands"; even the Russians cannot say with a straight face that the uprising is just a conspiracy thought up by Allen Dulles and fought by a handful of reactionary landlords. This is an entire people speaking, and speaking proudly for themselves...