European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                At height of russian tank stands before rhe Astoria hotel in Budapest pals soviet foreign minister Gromyko Janos Hungary sorry victim of soviet brutality two years offer desperate Freedom nation is suppressed by red secret police by Pierre up staff writer hungarians remove paving blocks for use in two years in the night of oct hungarian students in Budapest fought russian tanks and the Freedom re Volt was this bloody outbreak was not to end in Liberty and Justice for the embattled but those shots were heard around the world and stamped on the Kremlin leaders the Mark of after two some soviet soldiers Are needed in the cities and towns of Hungary to keep the flames of revolt from breaking out again in the from the standpoint of the free world and that Means in there is nothing practical that can be done to tear the shackled hungarians from russian the soviet Union has flouted every decent move to help the hungarians inside and outside and has made it Clear that Only Force will give Liberty to the danubian Force under the Given circumstances Means a major War Between Russia and the a Price too High at the moment to but the moral conscience of the world is smarting under the defiant arro Gance of the and some Day will come the soviet fear of a of that Vio Lent revolt is so great that the hungarian army has been reduced to a regimented mass of the army has been deprived of its tanks and heavy the air Force has been grounded and All officers have been required to sign a statement swearing loyalty to Janos Kadar and approval of soviet two months in frantic efforts to make the world believe that All is Serene in the soviet Union announced the withdrawal of red army lavish Public Farewell ceremonies were arranged and in the opinion of Western military of these withdrawals Are a Mere the soviet Union has built up or modernized More than 12 huge air bases namely at Szolnoky and an entire division can be deposited on these Fields in no inside Hungary the Story is far from hungarian exile groups in Europe and the have compiled reports which demonstrate that soviet terror exercised through local secret police rules the these reports Are corroborated by daily information flowing into the free Europe which monitors october 1958 the stars and stripes through its radio free Europe some so communist radios Day to glean facts about life inside the Iron All evidence put together shows that mass secret trials and ruthless police supervision Are the daily lot of the unhappy the terror has been characterized in past months by alternate periods of relaxation and the hungarians themselves grimly refer to this procedure As the accordion they Are con Vinced that this system is not haphazard but is part of a calculated psychological technique practice on a National As it is applied in Russia at this particular the terror is on the intensified competent estimates from the Given place the number of those imprisoned in hungarian concentration Camps at from to of the executed Range from to also to be taken into account Are hungarians who have been deported to Interior hungarian Camps and who have been taken to the soviet the latter deportations Are still Al though by night and under intensive the communists operate at least 10 Large concentration Camps inside with three of these of such ill repute that they rank with those of hitlers a few months a group of 40 juveniles from 10 to 16 years of age attempted a mass escape from several were shot and the majority with the help of local some 15 were reported to have made their As in the soviet concentration Camps mean slave the Coal mine at Edeleny is known to have 100 slave labor ers in each of its four prisoners in All Camps Are chained for the least Little and the intensification of internal terror has been accompanied by stepped up precautions in the Frontier at dead Border with the Iron cur Tain is just that a mined and barbed wire Fence bisects the austrian Farmers who accidentally come bit too close to the Border while working in the Fields Are shot at by and too curious tourists suffer the same so that All in Hungary two years after the revolt to sorry victim of soviet brutality and sup ii