Szivárvány, 1988 (9. évfolyam, 25-26. szám)

1988-06-01 / 25. szám

"All the News That's Fit to Print”

VOL. CVt .... No. 36.080.

Slje New Ifork Sinrts.

LATE CITY EDITION

■ETiÂ-sfis:rr-NEW YORK. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1956.

FIVE CENTS

Russians Crush Hungarian Rebels; U.N. Inquiry Voted; Eisenhower Note to Bulganin Urges Troop Withdrawal

WE ACCUSE

We «ecu«« the Soviet Government of murder. We accuse it of the foul* est treachery and the basest deceit known to mart. We accuse it of having committed so monstrous a crime against the Hungarian people yesterday that its Infamy can never be forgiven or forgotten.

Lenin wrote in 1900: ‘The Czarlat Goyernment not only keeps our people in slavery but sends it to suppress other peoples rising against their slavery (as was done in 1849 when Russian troops put down the revolution in Hungary).’* How apt these words sound today when we substitute "Soviet'* tor "Caarist," and 1935 for 1849.

Hatred and pity, mourning and admiration, these are our emotions today: hatred for the men and the system which did not hesitate to shed new rivers of Innocent Hungarian blood to reimpose slavery; pity for the Soviet soldiers, duped into thinking they were fighting •'Fascists’* when they killed defenseless or nearly defenseless men, wor men and children: mourning and admiration for the heroic Hungarian people who feared not even death to strike for freedom.

Gone now are the last illusions. Moscow now stands self-exposed. The torrent of Roviet bullets yesterday did not kill only Hungary's freedom and Hungary's martyr^ Those bullets killed first of all the picture of a reformed, penitent Russia seeking to repudiate Stalinism^ and practice coexistence. Could Stalin have acted more barbarously than did his successors yesterday? Can we have any doubt now of what awaits us if we ever relax our vigilance and permit ourselves to become prey to Roviet might, as was Hungary yesterday?

The day of infamy is ended. The foul deed is done. The most heroic era dead. But the cause of freedom lives and is stronger than ever, nurtured by the blood of those who fell martyred In freedom'a cause. The Hungarian people will never forget. We shall not forget. And out of hatred and teara Is born the’resolve to carry forward the struggle till freedom ia triumphant.

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