Provisional Verbatim Record of the Eight Hundred and Forty-Ninth Plenary Meeting. Fourteenth Session, A/P 848

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Title:
Provisional Verbatim Record of the Eight Hundred and Forty-Ninth Plenary Meeting. Fourteenth Session, A/P 848
Created:
New York (N.Y.): 8 December 1959
Language:
English
Physical Description:
43 p.: print out
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Summary:
US representative makes a deeply moving speech in defense of the Hungarian revolution. Accuses Hungarian government of not letting up on the persecutions, death sentences and executions of Hungarians, especially the young people who participated in the 1956 uprising. He calls Hungary a "house without windows" referring to the barbed wire being built along the border with Austria and Yugoslavia.

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Records of this digital collection were assembled to document the work of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary established on January 10, 1957 by the United Nations General Assembly for the purpose of investigating the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Principal contributor(s): United Nations. General Assembly
Source:
Records of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary: UN Documents (HU OSA 398-0-1)
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Rights Statement:
Rights Reserved - Free Access
Archival ID:
HU OSA 398-0-1-6027
Suggested Citation:
"Provisional Verbatim Record of the Eight Hundred and Forty-Ninth Plenary Meeting. Fourteenth Session, A/P 848", 8 December 1959. HU OSA 398-0-1-6027; Records of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary: UN Documents; Open Society Archives at Central European University, Budapest.
Permanent URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:b6461c4c-dab2-4ae4-b8b0-fad972bf80cb
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