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BOX-FOLDER-REPORT: 29-2-8
TITLE:             Chronology of Events in Hungary November 25 and 26, 1956
BY:                
DATE:              1956-11-27
COUNTRY:           Hungary
ORIGINAL SUBJECT:  ERS
THEMATIC SUBJECTS: Hungary--1956 Revolution, Political Persecution

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FROM THE HUNGARIAN RESEARCH AND EVALUATION SECTION
27 NOVEMBER 195

CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN HUNGARY
NOVEMBER 25 and 26, 1956.

(All from official Radio Kossuth unless specified)

NOVEMBER 25

0630 Yugoslav newspapers discuss the kidnap of Imre NAGY. (Radio NOVI SAD.)

0800 The National Free Trade Union of Artisans demands a full guarantee of
the artisans' economic and political rights.

1000 Today's NEPSZABADSAG published the reply of Soviet writers to French
writers in connection with the Hungarian revolution.

??5 According to NEPAKARAT, so far 120 persons were released by the public
prosecutor in BUDAPEST; 600 persons are still detained.

1202 The Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over a note to the
Hungarian and Soviet Embassies in BELGRADE concerning the case of
Imre NAGY.

1200 KISALFOLD the GYOR daily, urges the government to make a statement on
the status of the workers' councils and on the case of Imre NAGY.
(Radio GYOR.)

1500 Certain workers' councils in BUDAPEST publish appeals calling for strike.
According to the BUDAPEST Central Workers' Council these appeals do
not represent their standpoint. The BUDAPEST Central Workers' Council
calls upon the workers to resume work and announces that it will continue
negotiations with the government on November 26.

1510 Radio MISKOLC attacks those Communists who at the beginning supported
the revolution out of opportunism and who now wish to return to the
policy of RAKOSI. (Radio of county Borsod.)

1710 Representatives of BUDAPEST workers' councils and the government are
holding discussions in the Parliament.

1715 On November 26 the BUDAPEST Central Workers' Council intends to
discuss the case of Imre NAGY with the government.

1900 The workers' council of the PECS coalmines identify themselves with
the BUDAPEST Central Workers' Council and announce that they accept
the latter's resolutions. (Radio PECS.)

2000 Report on negotiations between representatives of BUDAPEST workers
councils and the government.

Speech by KADAR: - The revolution started with just demands but
degenerated into a counter-revolution?
- From October 30 Imre NAGY and his government
covered the counter-revolutionary activities;
- Imre NAGY left for Rumania at his own request.

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Speech by APRO: - Since the revolution production stoppage caused
a damage of five to six billion forint;
- Those who organize the strike want to overthrow
the rule of the people;
- Many leaders of the workers' councils are
counterrevolutionaries.

Lajos KERESZTES criticized on behalf of the BUDAPEST Central Workers'
Council the decree on the workers' councils.
Sandor BALI, chairman of a workers' council, emphasized that the
workers' councils are at present also political organs.
Sandor NAGY, delegate of a workers' council, stated that there is no
unity between the government and the people. He demanded that workers
also should be admitted to the militia.

- end of November 25 -

NOVEMBER 26

1040 The workers' council of the miners of county Borsod
proposed the forming of national miners' central work
council.

/Radio county Borsod/

1100 The workers of Gyor appeal to the peasants not to
create a black market and to sell food products to the
workers at normal prices.

/Radio GYOR/

1110 Interview with two escapees who returned from Austria
to GYOR, and appeal to listeners not to escape to the
West.

/Radio GYOR/

1200 MENON, special delegate of NEHRU, arrived in BUDAPEST.

1210 According to reports from Radio BUDAPEST, 40-60 per cent
of the workers appeared at their place of work.
Nevertheless, lack of power is preventing the resuming
of production.

1344 The delegates of the Central Worker's Committee of
BUDAPEST are negotiating with Antal APRO. The KADAR
government drags out the negotiations to gain time.
Appeal to soldiers not to re-join their units because
they will be deported by the Russians. The Soviet
government wants to deport 30,000 Hungarians to the
Soviet Union for a period of ten years.

/Unknown Hungarian Radio Station/

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1400 The Workers' Council of county Borsod resolved to do only
maintenance work in the factories as the negotiations
in BUDAPEST had not been succesful.

/Radio county Borsod/

1510 Report of the "Pravda" article of November 25, attacking
Radio Free Europe.

1700 The first secretary of the executive committee of the
Hungarian Workers' Party in county Borsod was relieved
of his office, and also the president of the County
council's executive committee.
The Workers Councils of county Borsod approved of the
action of the Budapest Central Workers Committee.
/Radio NYIEEGYHAZA/

1730 Radio GYOR appeals to the Yugoslav Ambassador in
BUDAPEST to communicate to TITO that counter-revolutionary
forces did not commit atrocities in SOPRON, therefore
TITO's reference to this in his PULA speech did not
conform to the truth.

/Radio GYOR/

1850 Leading article in the Party organ of the Chinese
Communist Party on the international importance of
Soviet-Polish negotiations.

2000 Up to 24 November 2,290 waggons of foodstuffs arrived
from the Socialist countries to Hungary.

2005 Today we produced 10,000 tons of coal. /Normal daily
production 80,000 tons/.

2020 The supply of basic food stuffs is sufficient. There is
lack of clothing and foot-wear.

2025 The population of BUDAPEST had 1,000,000 pawn-tickets.

2100 The broadcast of Janos EADAR;
-We liquidated the counter-revolution; the search for
hiding counter-revolutionaries is in process;
-We have to stop the anarchic activities of the
revolutionary councils;
-The People's Democracy means, to the workers, democracy,
but to the counter-revolutionaries, dictatorship.

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-The strike is instigated in the "background by the
counter-revolution;
-There will "be no personal changes in the government
until order is totally restored;
-Imre NAGY and his government committed an "unpardonable
crime" against the Hungarian people for tolerating the
counter-revolution and appealing for opposition against
the Soviet troops.

2200 Janos KADAR was too busy to receive the delegation of
the BUDAPEST Central Workers Committee. They were received
instead by Antal APRO. They are negotiating on the Imre
NAGY case, the newspaper of the BUDAPEST workers'
councils and on other demands.

End of November 26.

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