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Last week, despite the protests of writers from all over the world, including T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and even French Communist Poet Louis Aragon,* the puppet dictatorship of Janos Kadar sentenced Tibor Dery to nine years in prison for his revolutionary activities. Sentenced along with him were three other famed members of the Writers' Union: Playwright Gyula Hay, Journalist Tibor Tardos, Poet Zoltan Zelk, who wrote in a widely quoted poem...
...cold rain fell from early morning. Premier Janos Kadar had warned that any attempt to commemorate Hungary's brief interlude of freedom would be "smashed with an iron fist." Armed police, soldiers and goon-squad "workers' militia" patrolled street, school and factory...
...Nothing will happen on Oct. 23," Kadar's spokesmen had predicted sternly. And on Oct. 23, under the menace of the nine Soviet divisions which ringed Budapest, nothing visible happened...
...survivors of the revolution maintain a grim sense of humor. "Have you heard that the new Hungarian calendar has only eleven months?" asks the first Hungarian. "Yes," replies the second. "Premier Kadar has eliminated October...
Just in case Kadar has not succeeded, the regime has launched a new wave of arrests to head off any threat of trouble on the Oct. 23 anniversary of Hungary's rebellion...