A file of correspondence concerning the international reaction to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The documents cover the British role in the distribution of aid from Austria into Hungary; the reaction of several Scandinavian governments to the revolution; and an article in the Norwegian press, published the day after the establishment of a new Hungarian national government led by Imre Nagy, a reformist Marxist, claiming that "Communism is finished... as Nazism was finished in 1945". Other documents discuss the potential responses of the North Atlantic Council and Western European Union to events in Hungary; a meeting of the United Nations Security Council regarding the revolution; and the view of the British ambassador to the Soviet Union that the Soviets may intervene in Hungary if the new government is not considered to be sufficiently pro-communist. The documents also comment on the subsequent Soviet invasion of Hungary.
- Collection ID
- FO371
- Countries
- Austria Norway Soviet Union Sweden United Kingdom
- Department Reference
- Code NH files 10110/230-10110/272
- Document Type
- Correspondence Press and Media
- File Reference
- FO 371/122380
- Identifier
- 10.1080/cwee.fo371.122380
- Key Events
- Hungarian Uprising
- Note
- Documents in this file were retained under Section 3(4) of the Public Records Act 1958.
- Pages
- 209
- Persons Discussed
- Anastas Mikoyan Ferenc Nagy Imre Nagy József Mindszenty Leslie Fry Nicolas Cheetham Nikita Khrushchev Nikolai Bulganin Pierson Dixon Selwyn Lloyd William Hayter
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Subject Countries
- Hungary
- Themes
- International Relations Dissent, Resistance, and Human Rights
