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a few cans of line, they held up two viet columns for eight hour d troying five Ru n tan re the last y di Twenty men and w en, armed only with stones and stic rushed an armored car after the viets it lled a y of six. Eight viet ldie were left dead or badly wounded, d the a ored r was wreck But the ds were im­ ibly un ual, d the cri for help went out to the West "In the name of all hon t Hun s we ap l to all hon t men in the world Do you love berty? do we. you have wives and children? have we. We have wounded who have ven their bl for e cred u of li rty, but we have no bandages, no medicine The l t piece of bread has n ten. In the name of all that is d to you, we ask you to help." A s ial m ge went to ident Ei nhowe "We ask for immediate terven­
tion, ediate interev ntion."
Nothing whatever was done. id E nhowe un ry couldn't
reached by any of the U.S. or UN. units without traversing neut l terri­
tory. U the ma r nations of Euro would, without delay, ally them- . lves s ntaneously with us (an unima nable pr t) we could nothing. nding tr into Hun ry through· h tile or neutral territory would have involved us in a general war." All the U.N. could manage was a r lution calling on the et Union to stop interfering in Hun ry's af­
fairs. It was, of cour , i ored
The viets leveled Buda st At one of the last garri ns, the Kilian
Barrack only 40 Freedom Fighters remained by Novem r 7. e viets promi d them fe ge if they would surrender. Out they marched, heads held high: teenage , bl eping through their ndages; two men on crutches made of old window frame a rl helping a wound man. As the tes banged shut hind t m, the viet machine gunne clicked ck their ma ine e Hungarians were ma cre
Hun ry l t its finest men and women. Hundreds were killed, thou­ nds more nt to slave la r camps in Si ria Two hundred thou nd fled to Austria, wading through icy swamps to e ape. Nayg was arrested, after ing promi d fe pa ge, and executde . Jan Kadar was placed in wer, taking orders dir tly from M ow. The Hungarian uprising w totally and brutally crushe and the world knew-whether or not the United States admitted it-that the U.S. could not relied u n to help bring freedom to nations living under Communist rule.
om Containment to Detente
Having re cted a licy of li ration, the U.S. gove ment n -