Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What made the smashing of free Hungary different from other Soviet depredations? For one thing, the West had been an intimate eyewitness of Hungary's brave struggle for national independence, and had shared Hungarian joy at seeing Soviet tanks withdraw in apparently accepted defeat. Guarded hopes had changed to optimism. After all, perhaps the weak state of the Soviet satellite empire, forcing the Kremlin to come to terms with a national Communism in Poland, might also persuade the Kremlin to come to terms with a national regime in Hungary. Instead, the exceedingly swift development of anti-Communist sentiment...
...Russian attack on Hungary on the grounds of "interference with the internal affairs of Hungary." Said Lodge: "I am horrified by such cynicism." The debate was taken up in the U.N. General Assembly later, where 50 nations approved (with eight votes against) a U.S. resolution urging Russia to withdraw its troops from Hungary immediately...
...United States, as leader of the free world, should be prepared, nevertheless, to enter the conflict itself if there is no other way to hearten other nations in the cause of freedom. Therefore, the Government should issue a stern warning to Russia that she withdraw her troops from Hungary, or face the certainty of armed UN action...
...stirring in the other satellites, that if an armed force, either of the United Nations or the United States, should enter Hungary, there would very likely be a general uprising against Russia in the satellites. The Russians, even if they do not follow the UN directive to withdraw their troops (which they might do if they knew it were backed by force), would find themselves with a great revolt on their hands. They could not then concentrate their forces on Hungary alone. The struggles in Hungary and Poland have clearly destroyed the myth of Communist ideological domination of the satellites...
...time, the Communists may try to renege on the promises they made in panic. But the promises themselves are significant. On the revolution's sixth day, Premier Imre Nagy announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to withdraw its troops from Budapest, pledged that Hungary's hated security police would be disbanded, that the "serious sins" of the past twelve years would be rectified, and that his government would embrace the "new democratic forms of self-government initiated by the people...