Henry Cabot Lodge Urges U.N. Action on Hungary - HISTORY

U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. calls an emergency meeting of the U.N. General Assembly after Hungarians begin revolting against communist rule in October 1956.

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