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Time to Remember Hungarian Revolt
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
It was with a remarkably bad sense of timing that Communis Hungary chose this week to call for an improvement in Hungarian-United States relations.
There was not, however, anything remarkable in the fact that a regime which rose to power by a combination of brutality and treachery now should turn to blackmail as a natural means of restoring friendly relations between the two countries.
It was blackmail when the Hungarians suggested they might be willing to pardon Roman Catholic Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty as part of a package deal for full U.S. recognition of the Soviet puppet regime of Premier Janos Kadar.
IT WAS especially bad timing because on the same day the Hungarians were making their proposal public, Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand was making his annual report on Hungary to the United Nations.
"There is still no rule of law in Hungary, nor are the Hungarian people permitted to exercise the right of self-government," he wrote. He added:
Sir Leslie found that the Kadar regime existed only through the continued presence of some 50,000 Soviet troops.
"Despite adversity and repression, Hungarian national feeling remains alive, to the evident discomfort of the regime."
The Communist offer to barter for Cardinal Mindszenty's freedom, simultaneous with publication of Sir Leslie's report, make fitting a brief review of the tragic events of five years ago.
Thursday, Dec. 7, 1961 University Daily Kansan Page 11
IN THE Hungarian freedom revolts which exploded on Oct. 23, 1956, it has been estimated that 25,000 Hungarians and 7,000 Russians were killed.
On Nov. 4, with the revolt to all intents and purposes crushed, Mindszenty sought refuge in the white-stone U.S. Legation located ironically on Freedom Square in Budapest. He had been free exactly five days.
His flight to the U.S. Legation did not end that imprisonment. It only moved it to another location.
prison bars in 1948, Mindszenty had become the symbol of Communist repression of the silent church behind the Iron Curtain.
SINCE GOING behind Communist
Throughout his five years in the legation, Communist secret police have stood guard outside. Others from locations across the street have watched through binoculars as he goes about his daily prayers and writes his memoirs in his top floor quarters of the legation.
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