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...STAND AGHAST AT THE FAILURE OF U.N. TO ACT IMMEDIATELY TO SAVE THE HUNGARIAN PEOPLE FROM SOVIET REPRISALS. THE EVENTS IN HUNGARY HAVE SHATTERED ALL COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN EUROPE. FIRM INITIATIVE BY THE U.S. CAN STRENGTHEN DEMOCRATIC FORCES EVERYWHERE. WE HAVE CABLED PRESIDENT EISENHOWER A MESSAGE URGING HIM TO SPEAK OUT, TO USE THIS MORAL AUTHORITY TO OBTAIN IMMEDIATE U.N. ACTION, TO BROADCAST IN HIS VOICE A WARNING AGAINST REPRISALS. THE INFLUENTIAL U.S. PRESS MUST URGE SIMILAR ACTIONS BY EISENHOWER. THE HUNGARIAN STUDENTS, WORKERS AND WRITERS HAVE GIVEN THE WORLD A LESSON IN SIMPLE COURAGE THAT SHAMES ALL INACTION...
...Hungarian uprising has exposed again the murderous deeds of Communism and the cowardice of the Western democracies. The victims of Communist oppression can now see that they are entirely alone in their desperate struggle for freedom...
...other with harsh alternatives. Said a Soviet commander, listening to a Budapest workers' committee presenting its demands: "We approve of the right to strike, but we have many ways of bringing it to an end." Soviet field police seized the bank accounts of struck firms, arrested leading Hungarian journalists, imposed tight electric-power and food controls. Strikers had their own methods of enforcing the strike: they fired shots in front of buses that resumed running, and with hand grenades drove back workers who appeared at one factory...
Next, the Council heard a plea from Peter W. Gross '58, who, along with several other students, had made extensive inquiries into the United Nations' agency now working for Hungarian relief. Gross pointed out that the UN money would be distributed among all the refugees, and that of all the refugees, and that of all age groups, students seemed probably best able to take care of themselves. He also observed that the name of the UN would probably attract more donations from the University at large than would the relatively unknown...
Clearly, Stone had forced a test of his strength. In refusing to head a UN-directed drive, he tacitly had agreed to resign if the Council did not go along with his wishes, and more important, displayed that he had little actual concern for the welfare of Hungarian citizens--which the UN as well as WUS of course, has. To Council members about to vote on the matter, his fund-collecting agency rightly seemed to be the only efficient way of assembling a Harvard gift...