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...violence was mostly Russian. A dispatch brought by courier from a Western embassy reported: "The situation in Budapest is terroristic. Soviet soldiers are stealing and looting everywhere. They get into private homes and apartments on the pretext of looking for partisans and arms and then loot everything. Civilians are being stopped by Soviet soldiers on the street. The soldiers take from them all watches and jewelry. Civilian wounded are being taken to Rokus Hospital, which is very much overcrowded. Dead from the wards are thrown into the hospital courtyard. Wine cellars all over the city are being broken into...
...force moved in. the pretext for Soviet intervention would vanish. But the conditions that made the threat possible-the hatreds and tensions, the obvious advantage to the Kremlin of involving the West in a drawn-out and profitless war there-remain...
...Accordingly, they told Ben-Gurion they could promise him no support if he insisted on holding Sinai. From Washington Ambassador Abba Eban telephoned urging moderation and reporting that President Eisenhower was sending a personal message asking the Prime Minister to back down so as to give the Russians no pretext for intervention...
...French knew, Israel was already on the edge of launching a preventive war. The evidence indicates that it was at the Oct. 16 Paris meeting ?twelve days before Israel's invasion of Egypt?that Eden and Mollet agreed to reoccupy the Suez Canal Zone jointly on the pretext of protecting it from Israel's planned attack. Whether or not Israel was so informed is not clear (they intended to attack anyway), but from then on, Israel apparently kept France (and through France, Britain) abreast of its moves...
...forces in brigade strength moved over the border into eastern Jordan, and Baghdad announced that Iraqi armored elements were also on their way into Jordan. The presumption was that they were there to help Jordan defend itself against an Israeli invasion, although their presence might also give Israel the pretext for invading Jordan. By expanding eastward to the Jordan River, Israel could, at Jordan's expense, straighten out its borders (at one point only seven miles wide). That would leave Jordan with a wide stretch of desert, and not much to live on. One of the fears agitating Jordan...