The United States estimates 16,000 Hungarians had been deported to the Soviet Union from Budapest alone up to November 14. The Soviet estimate for the same period—none. A Hungarian ham operator radioed November 18 that to his knowledge 10,000 persons had been shipped East…. In London, a Soviet Embassy official recently tried to buy a copy of a Pathe newsreel film of the Hungarian riots—obviously with a view to blowing up the films and identifying individual Hungarian rebel fighters.
Middle Eastern oil production is down 30 per cent, American oil men say. They estimate it will be a year after a settlement before production can reach the pre-Suez output of 3.7 million barrels a day…. the first of 13 oilers and eight reserve tankers the Navy has ordered recommissioned will be in service this week. The reserve will replace commercial tankers now used to haul oil for military forces.




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