Oskar Rönngren’s Reviews > Betrayal by Rulers > Status Update

"In regard to washington's responsibilities concerning the precarious situation of all Red China's bigger and smaller neighbors, one must recall, first of all, that, but for President Truman's atrocious behaviour towards the faithful Chinese ally, there would have been no Red China; and but for the Marshal Mission, that country would be today a Nationalist China..."

"President Eisenhower's real attitude and policy towards Communist Russia, revealed publicly at the time of the Hungarian affair, showed up again during Khrushchev's visit to the United States. The president went so far in his effort to present the Soviet Leader as a nice, peaceful individual that he let his grandchildren be filmed on the knees of the butcher of the Ukrainian people..."

p. 217/218

"On November 2, 1956, a cablegram sent by the State Department to Tito asked him to give the Soviet government the following assurance:

The Government of the United States does not look with favor upon governments unfriendly to the Soviet Union on the borders of the Soviet Union."

This happened after Hungary drove out the communists, during the "1956 revolt of the Hungarian patriots".