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Forbidden to meet as a discussion group, a number of Petofi hotheads gathered together at the monument of Sandor Petofi on the morning of Oct. 23. Before a group that grew in size every minute, a young actor, holding a volume of Petofi's poems, recited a poem famous in the 1848 revolution. Many onlookers wept, and by unspoken consent it was decided to go to the statue of General Bem, the Polish general who led the Hungarians and was crushed by the Russians the following year. Without orders from anyone, the crowd formed in ranks six abreast, crossed...
...month of hasty organization, the workers' councils were able to form a central executive, called the Central Workers' Council, with headquarters on the fifth floor of a building in Budapest's Stalin Square. Here, a fortnight ago, Chairman Sandor Racz, a radio and telephone-equipment worker, his second in command, Sandor Bari, and eight other members of the executive considered a sinister resolu tion passed by Radar's stooge Communist Party. The workers' councils, said...
...widows and sisters of Budapest marched for Heroes Square to honor the memory of their men. As they trudged through the rain, some bore flowers, but most carried only thin shoppers' bundles of bread, cabbages, onions. Threading past the wreckage of their city, they chanted the words of Sandor Petofi, poet of Hungary's 1848 revolt: "We shall never be slaves...
...tiger that was the Hungarian revolution refused to be killed. Defiantly, Delegate Sandor Eckmann of the Budapest Central Workers' Council told Kadar to his face: "The real power in Hungary today, apart from the armed forces, is in the hands of the workers' councils. They have the masses at their disposal." It was a struggle in which neither side had the upper hand, and the result was misery, but not surrender...
...tone became hysterical. "If you don't go down into the pits," it told coal miners, "the workers cannot go to work, no bread will be baked, there will be no electrical current." Four days after announcing that peace had been restored, Kadar's Minister of Trade Sandor Ronai pleaded: "Let us put an end to the fighting . . . Let us start work in the factories and fields. Let us begin to build a free, independent, socialist Hungary." At Pecs in south Hungary, miners dynamited the prized uranium mines...