"If it took Moscow a few weeks to decide upon its course of action, the same could not be said of the United States. Despite promiscuous pledges to roll back Communism, President Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had no intention of rolling back anything. In a National Security Council meeting, Vice President Richard Nixon even stated that a Soviet invasion would not be an unmixed evil for the West, as it would bolster the alliance against Communism. Then, as now, what Gati quite correctly calls the Republican right’s 'fundamentalist rhetoric of liberation' was simply pious nonsense that ended up having lethal consequences."
Jacob Heilburn, in The New York Times, reviews three recently published books about the Hungarian Revolution.
And U.S. News & World Report provides a commemorative history.
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