I do not think the collectivized Hungarian peasants derive too much consolation from the fact that they are permitted to see an occasional American movie. As for the socalled amnesty. the State Departments memorandum is frank in stating that no one knows whether the number affected by the amnesty is 10.000 or 2.000 or 3.000. Hungarian refugee leaders are convinced. based on their own sources of information. that the amnesty is a fraud. and that the Kadar government has. in fact. only released a handful of political prisoners including several whose names command recognition internationally. The veteran correspondent Eric Bourne. writing to the Christian Science Monitor from Budapest. reports that Western legations in that city "estimate that some 2.000 to 3.000 prisoners were released and that of these some 500 to 700 had been jailed on political charges." Since it is generally agreed that there are at least 15.000 political prisoners in Hungary. I. for one. would not consider the release of several hundred political prisoners to constitute much of an amnesty.