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Department of State TELEGRAM 
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GEROUS COUNTEREVLUT I ONA RY SI TUAT 'I ON IN CZECHOSLOVAK I A ANO CON:f I NUED ABSENCE UNTIL · TUESDAY OF ' NECESS~Rrf RE MEO I AL ACTION• ONLY NOTE TAKEN OF HUNGARY MILIT~RY PARTICIPATION IS S~ORT MTl REPORr THAT HUNGARIAN UNITS WHICH1ALONG WITH ALLIED UNITS ARE "TENDING ASSISTANCE"TO PREVENT COUNTER•REVOLUTlON HAVE ENCOUNJERED NO RESISTANCE AND HAV CARRIED OUT THEIR ASSIGNED TASK WITHOUT LOSSES IN PERSONNEL' OR MATERIELLE STILL· DO NOT KOW TYPE OR SIZE OF HUNGARIAN CONTlNGENT WHICH SUPPOSEDL~ CROSSED INTO CZECHOSLOVKA 
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•COMMENTOUR GENERAL IMPRESSION IS THAT MOST ' HUNGARIANS WISH DEVLOPMENTS OF PAST TWO DAYS WOULD SIMPLY GO AWAY LIKE A BAO OREAM~NOT ONLY HAVE THE~ EVOKED BITTER MEMORIES OF NOT Too DISTANT PAST IN HUNGARY1BUT THEY H~VE EXPOSED IN ALL THEIR SHALLOWNESS PRETENTIONS OF KADAR REGIME WITH ITS GLITTER OF SUR F~CE LIBERALIZATION ANO SCARCELY CONCEALED PRIDE IN BEING ABLE TO PL~Y A MODERATING ROLE . OWEVRFACT#REMA~NS THAT HUNGARiANS . AREQUlESCENT AND DESPITE PREVAILING GLOOM ARE UNLIKELY TO CAUSE AN~ IMMEDAITE TROUBLE FOR THEIR COMMUNIST RULERS•SECURITY ME~SURES ANO GUARDS AROUND PUBLIC BUILDINGS INCLUDING EE EMBAS• 
Sl[S1CONTINUE AT NORMAL LEVEL AND SINCE UNIVERS~TIES ARE NOT JN SESSION1THERE IS LITTLE RISK OF STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS SH~ME# IS NO~ AN IDEAL CATALYST TO AC~ION ANO SYMPATHY FOR THE CZECHO• SLOVK CANNOT BE EXECTEO #TO T~KE FORM OF THE OCTOBER 231 1956 DEMONSTRATIONS OF SOLIDARITY WITH TME POLES• MILLENBR~NO 
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