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...wonder if we are not missing an important point. The Hungarians were fighting, apparently, for Hungarian Communism as advocated by Mr. Nagy, as opposed to Russian-dominated Communism under Mr. Kadar. But both governments are Communist...
Next day the women returned, bearing wreaths and black flags; this time Puppet Premier Janos Kadar's newly revamped security police beat them back with gun butts. When some of the women took cover in the British legation, a Russian tank lumbered up and stuck its gun into the open door. In his iciest Foreign Office manner, First Secretary Christopher Cope told the tank commander that he needed no Russian protection from "our Hungarian friends." Another delegation of women entered the U.S. legation a couple of blocks away, with a plea for U.N. help. Four Russian tanks roared...
...march of the Budapest women was symptomatic of Hungary, where revolutionary fires were flickering again among the tortured and exhausted people. Tense and jumpy, they were obviously near the end of their endurance. Yet so was Premier Janos Kadar and his little gang of Soviet stooges. Seven weeks after the revolution broke out, there was still no effective government in Hungary, and throughout the country, especially outside Budapest, the revolution-born workers' councils were reaching out more and more for the local government functions that the Kadar regime was unable to perform...
...prospect of a dual government was a challenge that Kadar's Russian bosses could not abide. Last week Kadar's newly revamped secret police began arresting leaders of factory workers' councils. Workers in a dozen plants struck in protest, and the roused patriots of Budapest tangled with Kadar's cops in the streets. Four died in one fight that started when Kadar forces paraded the Red flag past the West railway station. In the countryside scores were reported killed fighting against police and Russian soldiers -ten in the mining center of Tatabanya alone. The Budapest Workers...
Once again Kadar's Russian masters moved to his rescue. "By night," reported TIME Correspondent Edgar Clark from Budapest, "the city is usually quiet and no Hungarians are abroad after the 9 o'clock curfew. Late last Saturday night and early Sunday morning it was different. The sporadic flourish of small arms fire and an occasional artillery shot echoed and re-echoed from the hills of Buda. Reinforcements of Soviet tanks were moving into the city. They came because Budapest streets were littered on Saturday afternoon with leaflets calling for a 'total strike' in the name...