The International Rescue Committee (62 W. 45th St-, N.Y.C.), which has organized an Emergency Appeal for the Free Hungarian People, guarantees that funds received will be distributed by its own people, not by the Red Cross or any other agency with governmental connections…. Governor Ribicoff of Connecticut has asked every church in the state to assume responsibility for one Hungarian individual, or family.
Reaction in Europe to the Hungarian massacre: In Paris, Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, a leading Communist apologist, headed a group of French intellectuals in a bitter denunciation of the Soviet Union. Italy’s Left Socialist leader, Pietro Nenni, said he would return his Stalin Peace Prize (if he can raise the $25,000 in prize money, already spent)…. Cartoonist James Friell quit the London Daily Worker after twenty years, and two important British union leaders denounced their party affiliations…. A general strike “against fascism” called by France’s Communist CGT union (the nation’s largest) fizzled completely…. In northern Italy scores of party members publicly tore up their Communist cards.




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