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...Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. pressed hard for withdrawal of Soviet troops and a U.N. investigation, won a 50-8 approval. Aware that he could not help the rebels militarily without increasing the threat of a bigger war, the President ordered, as a heartfelt gesture, that 5,000 Hungarian refugees be admitted to the U.S. without regard to the niceties of the immigration laws...
...most capitals only satellite diplomats, a few neutralists, some Egyptians turned up-and wherever he appeared, the loneliest man was the Hungarian, shunned and shunning. "I hope they choke on their caviar!" said a demonstrator outside the Russian embassy in Stockholm. A Finnish protocol officer, required to attend in Helsinki, insisted: "I'm not thirsty. I'm not hungry." A pamphlet distributed by students outside the Russian embassy in Washington taunted: "Try our new cocktail . . . freshly mixed in Hungary. It's spiced with children's tears and blood...
...just the right-joined in spontaneous demonstrations in Paris. Marseille and Lyon. In Bordeaux they tore down the nameplate on Place Stalingrad, renamed it Place Budapest. Flags flew at half-staff. The National Assembly broke into tumult and fighting after Communists jeered a resolution extending sympathy to the Hungarian rebels. "History will judge those who do not associate themselves with this homage!" cried Foreign Minister Christian Pineau...
...shutters, as from five narrow streets the mob surged in. The Communists greeted them with a fusillade of bottles, one a Molotov cocktail that exploded in flames in the crowd (see cut). The youths regrouped and rushed the building. One shinnied up a traffic light to fasten a bloodstained Hungarian flag. The others pried at the shutters, smashed the windows and climbed inside...
Among the speakers the Committee is trying to obtain for its rally is Hungarian-born actress Ilona Massey. Financial backing for the demonstration is reportedly coming from a "group of Boston citizens" who have become interested in the work of Sheehan's group...