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dated November 11, 1956: Nehru on Hungary issue

Prime Minister Nehru told the AICC in Beliaghata (Calcutta) on November 9 that he had received from the Soviet Premier, Mr. Bulganin, on November 8 a fairly long account of the happenings in Hungary. He said that, according to facts in his possession, the Soviet troops had withdrawn from Budapest after the Soviet declaration of October 30 stating the Government's policy of recalling troops from East European countries. They returned later at the invitation of a new Government of Hungary. "What appeared to have occurred in Hungary is a civil conflict on rather a large scale, to begin with, among the Hungarians themselves," Mr. Nehru said, adding that the same forces of democratisation had been at work in Hungary as those in other East European countries. "But they did not lead - partly because of lack of adequate and powerful leadership - to the same peaceful changeover, and what appears to have occurred in Hungary is a civil conflict."

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