Speech #850002735

I confess I have been disturbed over just how much our propaganda may have encouraged Hungarians in their hopes that their desperate uprising against tyranny would gain assistance from the West. There have been repeated reports. from journalists and observers on the scene. that many of these brave fighters for freedom were disappointed and bitter over the failure of any such assistance to materialize. As only one example of such reports. Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to include in the RECORD at this point a significant dispatch from Vienna. of November 24. 1956. by John MacCormack. of the New York Times. which describes the emotions of Hungarian refugees crossing the border into Austria and their disillusionment about western inaction.