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Hungary's Fight for Freedom includes eyewitness accounts of the fighting by LIFE Correspondent Tim Foote, who was wounded in the Budapest fighting, by French Photographer John Sadovy, whose eloquent pictorial report for LIFE was reprinted in newspapers around the world, and by an unidentified Hungarian rebel...
Wrote Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce in the foreword: "This book is a tribute to the Hungarian dead, to whom we owe our pity, our pride and our praise. But this book is also a salute to the ways men find-ways routine and ways heroic-to tell each other the story of great deeds and their meaning. So it is always with the story of freedom...
...that debt. Now it was time for more orderly action. Last week President Eisenhower appointed Tracy S. Voorhees, 66, a veteran troubleshooter, former (1949-50) Under Secretary of the Army and onetime U.S. Food Administrator for Occupied Areas, as his personal representative to coordinate work in resettling the Hungarian refugees. Then (after proclaiming a new $5,000,000 Red Cross Hungarian relief drive) the President boosted the number of refugees to be admitted to the U.S. from...
Hungary's puppet Premier Janos Kadar, whose own fingernails were once pulled out by Communist torturers, last week proclaimed his intention of crushing the Hungarian revolution. "A tiger cannot be tamed by bait," he said. "It can be tamed and forced to peace only by beating it to death...
...tiger that was the Hungarian revolution refused to be killed. Defiantly, Delegate Sandor Eckmann of the Budapest Central Workers' Council told Kadar to his face: "The real power in Hungary today, apart from the armed forces, is in the hands of the workers' councils. They have the masses at their disposal." It was a struggle in which neither side had the upper hand, and the result was misery, but not surrender...