The Austrian General Haynau. called the Hyena of Brescia for his atrocities in Italy. executed the Hungarian national leader. Batthyany. and 13 of the Hungarian generals who were afterward known as the Martyrs of Arad. The poet Petofi had disappeared In battle. Kossuth escaped to Turkey and later went to England and the United States. Thousands of Hungarians fled the country. The United States received these refugees as she did the refugees of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The memory of the battle for liberty is still fresh on this March 15. 1968. when we pay tribute to the memory of Lajos Kossuth and his noble struggle for the freedom of his homeland. SENATEFriday.
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