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HUNGARY FREE
But Faces Threat Of New Red Invasion
Voice: Ed Herlihy
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At the end of a six-day fight that astonished the world and shook the Kremlin
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to its foundations, Hungary was free. Free to fraternize on its own borders
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and rush in supplies to the stricken city of Budapest along roads littered
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with burnt-out Red tanks, disabled by almost unarmed men fired by passion for liberty.
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Flaring swiftly from student demonstrations into open revolution,
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the pent-up hatreds of oppression sent Russian might reeling
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and forced withdrawal of the Red yoke.
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But even as these scenes were recorded, rumors flared of the reentry of
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Russian forces and new fighting. A beautiful city of Budapest, scarred by
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conflict again, faces a Russian onslaught even before the debris
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of the fight for freedom is cleared from the streets.
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In startling developments, Hungary broke with the satellite Warsaw Pact
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military alliance, announced neutrality and pleaded for priority
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on the United Nations' agenda.
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Then word came that Russian forces were amassing and all communication
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with the West was cut off.
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Hungary's newfound freedom is menaced before the martyrs of revolution
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go to their rest.
