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...recently escaped Hungarian student leader, identifying himself as Istvan Laszlo, told a crowd of about 800 in New Lecture Hall last night that the time for military intervention is now past and that the free world should concentrate the force of its public opinion to get Russian troops out of his country...
Speaking at a meeting sponsored jointly by the Student Council and the CRIMSON, Laszlo said that it is "bitter" for the Hungarian fighters to listen to some of the conciliatory statements made in the U.N. by some western politicians. He added, "I am certain the West could influence Russia with its moral force, if it really wanted...
Speaking through a translator, Laszlo testified that many Russian troops refused to fight the Hungarians, but were eventually "terrorized" into shooting by their officers and the "tougher" divisions sent from Russia as reinforcements...
...Laszlo escaped from Budapest with the aid of the International Rescue Committee as Russian tanks began to roll into that city. On November 5 he flew to the United States with a member of Imre Nagy's revolutionary cabinet...
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government will make a few analytical comments before Laszlo makes his address. The meeting is sponsored by the CRIMSON and the Student Council in cooperation with the National Student's Association...