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THE END OF THEIR RAINBOW
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HALF A LOAF
The first of the Hungarian refugees to set foot
in America under the special authorization of Presi
dent Eisenhower, were welcomed at Camp Kilmer,
N.J., by an Army band playing Brahms, a flowery
speech by Secretary of the Army Wilbur Brucker, a
prayer by an Army chaplain, and an “Isten Horza”
(Welcome) sign over the camp gate.
A young Hungarian in horn-rimmed glasses—
who had spent the long hours of the flight from Vienna
rehearsing his speech—made the response. He thanked
the greeters and all Americans for “Operation Mercy
and said: “We have brothers at home, still suffering
under tyranny.”
To receive and succor these hapless people may
soothe American consciences. But there are still “broth
ers at home” who are still “suffering under tyranny.”
And the number of those whose sufferings will have
ended; through slaughter or starvation, are growing
larger.
In failing to help the Hungarian freedom fighters,
Ferenc Nagy, a former Hungarian Premier (but no
relation to the more recent Premier Imre Nagy) told
a closed session of the House UnnAmerican Activities
Committee that the West lost a chance to seriously
weaken the Communist empire.
At the beginning of the revolt, he said, the free
world should have demanded the withdrawal of Soviet
armed forces and backed up the demand with “a show
of force. Such action, rather than “observation or sym
pathy,” Mr. Nagy felt, “could well have been the
beginning of the end of the world Communist move
ment.”
Whether or not such action might have plunged
us into World War III, the Nagy views do not help
much now—except as they may help us to face up to
the facts as they now exist; to consider how we will
implement Cuba’s U.N. resolution demanding the re
turn of the Hungarian patriots deported to Siberia, or
what we will do if similar struggles should break out
in Poland, East Germany or Bulgaria.
Should we, or can we, do no more than give asylum
to seme of the fortunate ones who are able to escape
the massacre?
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California Has
Worst Record of
Traffic Deaths
LOS ANGELES, bP—California,
proud of its fine holiday weather
and magnificent super highways,
today had to live with the worst
record in the nation for traffic
deaths over Christmas.
The state led all others with at
least 73 fatalities.
Death was indiscriminate in the
Golden State.. It took infants,
servicemen, old persons—e v e n
orphaned children as they waited
at home for the annual gift-giv
ing to commence.
Friends of William and Mary
McKay didn’t want to tell the •
couple’s five children when they!
woke up Christmas morning that
their parents were no longer
alive.
McKay, an airport employe at
Blythe, and his wife were return
ing home from a Christmas Eve
party when their car plunged into
a canal.
On Christmas Day, a car con
taining a Palmdale family and a
couple visiting from Minneapolis
] rounded a curve on the new An
geles Crest Highway above Pasa
dena. Only seconds before, two,
large boulders had failed onto the
scenic roadway from a slope
above.
The car hit one of the boulders
and plunged into a 500-foot-deep
canyon—killing Kenneth McRae,
33; his son Bruce, 8; and their'
house guest from Minneapolis,
.Virs. Elsie Beelow, 54.
Seriously injured were Fred j
Beelow, 58; Richard McRae, 59; i
and Mrs. Martha McRae. 58.
A crew which rescued the in-1
jured found gay Christmas pack- j
ages strewn about the bodies.
Pan Am May Lose
Support in Plan
For Seattle Sion
SAN FRANCISCO, (>P>— San
Frmcisco’s Public Utilities Com-;
mission may rescind its support1
of a plan to include Seattle as a 1
stop on Pan American World Air- \
way’s projected great circle route
to the Orient.
Commissioner Edward G. Bar
on said last night he has changed
his mind. He voted with the ma
jority Monday when the com
mission passed a resolution, 3-2,
supporting Pan American’s bid
for a stop in the Pacific North
west. '
Baron asked for a special meet
j ing before the Friday deadline for
filing the city’s brief with the
Civil Aeronautics Board.
Joseph Martin Jr., PUC chair
man, said he would arrange the
special session.
A CAB examiner has recom
mended a great circle route from
Los Angeles and San Francisco
to Tokyo—without mail or pas
senger stops at Portland or Seat
tle. Pan American argues that a
Seattle terminus would make pos
sible seven flights a week. With
out it, Pan American said, it
could make only two flights a
week.
Martin argued that Pan Amer
ican’s plan would encourage trav
elers to take off from Seattle in
stead of San Francisco.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
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Hungarians Will
Repl ace Japanese
In Siberia Camps
MAIZURU, Japan. Deport
ed Hungarians will replace Jap
anese prisoners of war in Siber
ian camps, a Japanese repatriate
today quoted a Russian officer as
saying.
Yoshimichi Nakagawa said a
Russian officer at the Khabar
ovsk camp told him “Many Hun
garians are to come to Siberian
camps after you’ve gone.”
The Soviet Union has denied
shipping Hungarian rebels out of
their country. The West claims
thousands of Hungarians were
deported to Russia.
Nakqgawa was one of 1,025
Japanese who returned home
here today after 11 years in So
viet prisons.
The Welfare Ministry says at
least 10,000 more are still missing
somewhere in the Soviet Union—
the last of the soldiers and civil
ians caught when the Red army
came crashing down through
Manchuria 11 years ago in the
last seven days of World War II.
The repatriates arrived from
Siberia aboard the white-hulled
Koan Maru. One hundred seven
ty were ill, 35 requiring immedi
ate attention.
Yugoslav and Russian
Newspapers Exchange
Verbal Shots on Policy
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, U¥>—
The official newspaper of Presi
dent Tito’s Communist Party says
Pravda deliberately hides certain
facts from the Russian people.
Borba, the Yugoslav party’s or
gan, replied bluntly Wednesday
night to an attack by the Soviet
Communist Party's paper on a
speech by Yugoslav Vice Presi
dent Kardelj on the Hungarian
crisis. Earlier, the government
controlled Yugoslav radio called
the Pravda article “malicious and
tendentious."
Kaiv.elj told Parliament Dec. 7
that Soviet intervention to crush
the Hungarian revolt was aimed
at preserving the balance of pow
er in Europe rather than at sav
ing Socialism (Communism) in
Hungary. He repeated Tito’s own
view opposing in principle all
military intervention.
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LIBRARY ACQUIRES
NEW MYSTERIES AND
CHILDREN S BOOKS
The KK Library has recently
| acquired the following books,
j Books for children:
Come Be My Friend, Irmen
j garde Eberle; Cabin Boy, Vincent
I Dempsey: Animals in Fur, Clar
ence J. Hylander; Nature Games
and Activities, Sylvia Cassell;
Balboa, Finuer of the Pacific,
Ronald Syme; Mrs. Wappinger’s
Secret, Florence Hightower; How
Old Are You?, Leonard H. Kirk
patrick; Hinkeldinkle, Frank Ju
po; A Cow in the House, Mabel
Watts.
• Mysteries and detective stories:
Murder in Haiti, Vondercook;
Prisoner’s Base, Stout; Gedeon’s
Day, Marric; Widow’s Web, Cur
tiss; A Shot of Murder, lams; The
Case of the Talking Bug, Gordon;
F.O.B. Murder, Hitchens; A Key
to Death, Lockridge; Basil Ex
press, Coles; Broken Shield, Ben
son; False Colors, Powell; The
Evil of the Day, Sterling; Cuckoo
Line Affair, Garve; Never Bet
Your Life, Cox; Deah of a Coren
theon, Louham; Schirmer Inheri
tance, Ambler; Burnt Offering,
Lockridge; Death Has a Small
Voice, Lockridge; Deadly Climate,
Curtiss; Singing Sands, Tey; Un
invited Guest, Cox; Widow’s
Plight, Fenisong; Silver Cobweb,
Benson; Scales of Justice, Marsh.
• * •
Other recent additions:
Land of the Silver Spruce, by
Blackburn; Wonderful Flight to
Mushroom Planet, by Cameron;
Cloud Catcher, Crist; Cowboy of
the Pampas, Greene; Stormy
Summer, Harrington; Julie’s Se
cret Sloth, Jackson; Hearth in the
Snow, Jones; Mystery Trail, Lane;
Let’s Dance a Story, Mace; Raf
ferty Red, Merwin; Treasury of
Plays for Children, Moses;
Lost Hurrah, O’Conner; Story
Parade Mystery, Parker; White
Elephant Mystery, Blue Herring
Mystery, Yellow Cat Mystery, all
by Ellery Queen; Wild Flowers of
America; The Enchanted School
House, Sawyer; Carrier Boy, Tay
lor; Mystery of the Old House,
Wallace; Rock River Ranger,
Young.
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