REVOLT IN HUNGARY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800070014-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: November 27, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
Rei,(lI in. 11 uttgary
It teems .a pity that recent
actic;ties it, ilungar) hi-- d;ti
tracted many from a ; Ic.tr re`:
ogr.ttinn of the semanti. nire
tie,: at issue Happily. the 1-11
tie( world. wit h the sole < tr, !r-
tir,ns of Russia and if, nr:n '.
r alined all along that. i? v as
n; more than a s ar of v: 'rd
Those Of us with A prnp? t
respect for the nuances it,^
guage were supply 01-1-111r(1
with :\mbassador lodges la, l
minute substitution of 'Le %(,: d
-condemns" for " dep:ores ? In
describing Russia's siwigiver
iitg of Hungarian c.Aran'
Only the IIungarrans, dry gc,ily
attacking Russian iii ik,? nth
small arms, laded to a ?; rccr
ate the, devastating f:t of
that verbal burnhsliell
And what a 'n-1 c!'VIF i's
the United Sate rrs: liii air
calling on the RU sia ,s I ' scrtir
dr w all troops Iron lit:n a
'I'h~ fact that their was not
the remotest likel!ho,,,' coin-
pi since puzzled re a n'. -rho
i!iNsed the vital r,,,:, that
those were words f rr I: ake
of words. Certarrlc t r bete,
garian grandrnotit-- .a ii 11141
her dead hushan,l and suns.
could not understand t! -
tlety; it 15 tun deep fm the
peasant mentality
That ignorant ,+nrt i~ had
probably never e, en h,ard of
Roberts' Rules n, th'ree' and so
could not derive %",n ;roc enn-
noisseur's sat isfart W n the
request that et,re:cat:rti,hs
be named "to ,.,, ?r,s:; .. the
situation and eiak, roc" -iiteen
dations.'' tin-., .sians
beyond the shade:- n` a doubt
that we wil! di ice ,ion
with evor!. .?.+n rnus-
ter The ttu-:a, knowing
that they ar- r- :,rch for us
oratoricatl, P. ', " r''% try
to compete- , ,?a Fl when
faced with a.. situa
lion in E rr ell- let
it be knrrv ?i , !' trim
the Arabs and send in v0 un-
teer'? troops of their own. This
readiness to resort to violence
testifies to a regrettable weak-
ness of character and shows
that they are not really in com-
mand of the situation. Our mag-
niPeent self-control, which er-
ahlcc us to stand by while a
'-mall nation is systematically
hludeoned to death, shines all
the hrighter by comparison.
The facts are unpleasant, but ?
ice must face them and admit
that the Hungarians have been
Crritty of lamentable gaucherie.
they listened to Radio Free
Europe; they read the pam-
phlets our balloons showered
on them; they paid attention to
our repeated protestations that.
.111 nations should be free,
that enslated nations should
rise up and put down the ty-
rants. The awful shame is that
they took all this seriously - nd
expected that words would be
backed up by action. They
should have known that this
was all just a word game.
Therefore, when they are
bombed and shot down, when
their dead bodies are used as
public ornaments, when their
military leaders are perfidi-
ously seized, and when their
government Is liquidated and
their officials murdered, they
have only themselves to blame.
The fault lies in their deplor-
able tactlessness in confusing
words with the things they
stand for.
We have always known that
the pen is mightier than the
;word. Now we know also that
the airy heights of rhetoric are
more comfortable than the
brink of war. If only the Hun-
garians had grasped this sim-
ple fact and called for words
rather than arms! Their expec-
tations would then have been
brilliantly realized and they
reed not have felt betrayed and
(Inserted in their time of des-
niratn need.
TREVOR WILLIAMS.
Cher v these, Md.
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