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The U.S. was doing its earnest, if at times disorganized, best to meet the Hungarians' needs, and to make its position clear to the world. When Russian tanks drew up before the U.S. legation in Budapest to intimidate Hungarians who were seeking American aid, Deputy Under Secretary of State...
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...
After spending two nights in the U.S. legation at the height of the battle, Jones moved back to his unheated fourth-floor room in the shell-pocked Duna Hotel. Phone service was disrupted, but the Western correspondents were able to file brief pooled dispatches on the only Teletype circuit to...
The Sleeping Prince (by Terence Rattigan) turns on his side now and then, and mumbles and stirs, but never once wakes up. Having given Broadway-in Separate Tables-the season's liveliest theater to date, Playwright Rattigan here blindly scattereth poppy while contriving poppycock. His scene is the Carpathian...
At a news conference, a spokesman for the department reported a new blackout of all telephone and telegraph contact with the American Legation in the revolt-torn capital of Budapest.