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11/6/1956 - Wars and Rumors of Wars by Smith Hempstone Jr.

NOT FOR PUBLICATION INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS SH I American Embassy Wars Rumors Wars Athens Greece November Mr Walter S Rogers Institute Current World Affairs Fifth Avenue New York New York Dear Mr Rogers The early October snowfall spiraled twisted swirled through foothills Swiss Alps danced uncertain yellow Zurich streetlamps pressed against leaded panes where dissolved quickly running rivulets window The pianist spots color squirrel cheeks swung Cole Porter Hungarian rhapsody Conversation small highly polished tables seemed unfinished An elderly oiled mahogany sipped brandy tentatively The young woman glanced questioningly drink rubbed carefully circle glass The pianist rushed through rhapsody reached higher intensity flourish ended fingers The final notes filled stuffy mingled smell cigar smoke The elderly burnished mahogany applauded The pianist quietly In memoriam Thus Zurich evening October SO The Hungarian Revolt great October Revolution several according Swiss press achieving definite limited success Names which jarred American names Gyor Sopron Szentgotthard Miskolc Szolnok Yzarom Debrecen being carved forever earts The reaction Swiss John Doe Hungary October Revolution headed pessimistic There little reliable information surely Russia rather pushed teller Others agreed SH I The Israeli Sinai Peninsula place following We Rome The Italian reaction Hungarian Revolt cohorete vehement Corso Piazza Cavour posters numberless political parties spectrum Catholic Right Socialists other denoun Soviet repression praising Magyar rebels students estimated number O00 youths demonstrated arrived previous The demonstrations centered around Russian Hungarian diplomatic offices On All Saints Day there prayers peace St Peters The Italians largest Communist party West apparently concerned Hungarian situation still surface successful rapidly deteriorating course events Sinai Peninsula skies Egypt The Italian street seemed uninterested Middle Eastern solution found identity victor world conflict avoided There unfamiliar bustle Rome airport waited BEA Viscount which would Athens hoped Africa Already service Cairo Khartoum Middle East suspended airlines The waiting Jammed stand hoping cancellation flights still scheduled leave In airport coffee sipped expresso talked American officer Just children plane States He Embassy Israel years result hostilities extended sixty He report Tel Aviv first vailable commercial American military personnel Israel aware three before something going happen We which direction Israelis would going He estimated Israeli forces Sinai desert about three divisions least possibly three divisions motorized partially armored Against suggested Egyptians perhaps But fight emphasized studied SH I fingernails thing The Israelis For money could handle whole Arab League themselves Why Training Every single woman country They physically tough confident When Israeli yearly reserve doesn attend bunch lectures reserves States He field maybe He ready We major plane moments later boarded Viscount Athens Greek reaction Hungarian Revolt which today Athens papers ppears doomed Middle Eastern violent bitter The Cyprus question Involved And Cyprus question means Athens The National Gardens stretch behind kiosks Constitution Square Royal Palace Green luxuriant laced footpaths edged palms dwarf trees gardens haven Greek street getting It pleasant there watch strutting peacocks selling chestnuts nurses playing small children Dead center Gardens Zappeion useum Four rooms Zappeion stuffed Riberas E1 Grecos Of Greek artists sculptors ancient times present Admission drachmaes Three roomsare filled photographs gallows The gallows supposed represent Harding British cmmander Cyprus Gre Cypriot patriots Admission Other exhibitions include poorly retouched photo graph Archbishop Makarios standing behind barbed fence photographs British barbarism Cyprus The exhibit under auspices Greek Student Union Cyprus Athens The Hungarian Revolt Egyptian War Here composite reactions Greeks walks Danubian Nil crises SH First blame Bitain France failure Hungarian Revolt Anglo French collus Israel moved against Egypt Hungarian Revolt would world undivided attention Russian imperialism would completely unmasked UN would moved Hungaria patriots would By action Britain France Greeks West tremendous metal force which could saved agyars Secondly Greeks Angle French action itself blatant colonialism their action against people Cyprus hence reprehensible Their opinion United States policy mixed They forgiven supporting fully Cyprus question They applaud position Egyptian War readably because opposing Britain And could agyars sending truckloads tinned One feeling sitting Constitution Square crushing pistachio watching warming orange trees already turned black public reaction from_the Matterhorn Aegean dispairing Hungary angry Egyptian War And afraid A third World War something Greek after years fighting Italian likes contemplate The squirrel checked pianist Zurich expressed their fears In memoriam Sincerely Smith Hempst Jr Received New York I1