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...former Vice President of Yugoslavia and onetime partisan comrade of Tito. The police seized all Djilas' recent writings and marched him off to jail. No charge was laid against Djilas. His presumed crime: he had written an article for New York's New Leader hailing the Hungarian revolution as a "new chapter in the history of humanity," in effect, the beginning of the end of Communism...
...Hungary has become one big cemetery. The acts perpetrated by the army of the Soviet Union in Hungary beggar description . . . Men, women and children are led forcibly outside Hungarian territory. Executions have felled hundreds every day. And all this is being done despite indignant humanity which turns to the U.N. ... as the only means of putting this slaughter, this butchery...
With this emotion-packed preface Cuban Delegate Emilio Nunez-Portuondo last week introduced into the U.N. General Assembly a resolution which, besides reiterating the U.N.'s previous demand for withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary, called upon the Russians "to cease the deportation of Hungarian citizens and to return promptly to their homes those who have been deported...
...Fetid Odor." Watered down as it was-in its original form it had bluntly accused the U.S.S.R. of genocide-the Cuban resolution infuriated the Soviets and their Hungarian stooges. Hungary's Deputy Foreign Minister Endre Sik, by his own admission a former Soviet citizen, flatly denied that any deportations were taking place and contended that "this declaration by our government makes it clear that there is nothing for the General Assembly to discuss." Shaggy-haired Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov snarled that the Cuban resolution "has about it the fetid odor of provocation" and blamed the trouble in Hungary...
...Egypt while expressing only mild concern over Soviet Russia's ruthless repression in Hungary. In a letter to the Times of India, Nehru's brother-in-law, Raja Hutheesing, put to the Prime Minister an unanswerable question: "Under what international law has the massacre of thousands of Hungarian people been termed by the Government of India ... a civil strife...