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...coalition government, and been refused. The next that was heard of Nagy was a cryptic announcement over Radio Budapest that Nagy had expressed a wish to live in a people's democracy, and that he and his companions had "departed to the territory of the Rumanian People's Republic...
Inside Game. The Communist play of his speech had a significance of its own. Both the Hungarian radio and Polish press carried excerpts from it. Moscow did not, nor did the Bulgarian, Rumanian or Czechoslovak radios. The Italian Communist press featured it; the French Communist press attacked it. This unusual pattern was an indication of where the tough line was in control, and where...
...miners missed 18% of the shifts v. 9% prewar). Besides the manpower shortage, another big production bottleneck in the East was the lack of fuel and other sources of energy. In the first six months of 1956, Russian oil-refinery output dropped 400,000 tons short of its plan. Rumanian and Hungarian oil production also fell behind schedule...
...Just" War. As if taking all this very seriously, that pudgy partisan of peace, Nikita Khrushchev, warned at a Rumanian embassy reception in Moscow that if attacked "the Arabs will not stand alone. It will be a just war, and there will be volunteers." (In the Communist sense, volunteers" are apt to show up in division strength.) Obviously, Khrushchev felt that he could hint at belligerency without risk of war. As things stood, the French and British were likely to shoot only if Nasser closed the canal or committed some fresh outrage...
...says it wants no oil rights in return. Though British and U.S. companies, e.g., Burmah Oil, Standard Vacuum, have spent years and millions of dollars to develop new oil resources in India, Russian surveys have encouraged the Indian government to look for oil on its own. Last May, with Rumanian crews and equipment, the government started exploration work in Bengal and test-drilling in Punjab...