Word: laszlo
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...LASZLO ACSAY...
...revolt of October 23 broke out spontaneously all over the country, Laszlo explained, and was carried on "without any class distinctions." The aims of the uprising, he claimed, were freedom and independence for Hungary, free elections, and the "purging" of the Russians from the country...
...this year, Laszlo continued, his University as well as others throughout the country had presented grievances to the government. But the Universities' demands became secondary when the revolt broke into the open, he said...
...Laszlo told of how the students of Sopron organized a non-Communist youth group with himself as president and voted to take up arms for the country's independence. Police and army commanders willingly gave the students arms, Laszlo recounted, and fought against the secret police, who put up the real resistance early in the Revolution...
...Laszlo's companions chose him to ask for help from the United Nations a few days before they themselves were forced by the Russian tanks to seek asylum in Austria. Although his companion, former minister Anna Kethly, was given a hearing at the U.N., Laszlo was not admitted...