Sir Hartley Shawcross, representing the International Commission of Jurists, appeared and made a statement before the committee in regard to the situation in Hungary. He explained a legal point of view on the intervention of the Soviet troops, the trials following the revolution, the status of the country as a Soviet satellite state, and the legality of the Kádár government. The most important points of reference were the Peace Treaty with Hungary (1947), the Geneva Conventions, and the Warsaw Pact.
Context
Creation Note:
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 Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary
Source:
Records of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary: UN Documents (HU OSA 398-0-1)
"Verbatim Record of the Thirty-Fifth Meeting (Closed)", 13 March 1957. HU OSA 398-0-1-6579; Records of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary: UN Documents; Open Society Archives at Central European University, Budapest.
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