Boy’s Appeal To Khrushchev
(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON. June 5. A 12-year-old Hungarian boy, recently reunited with his family after his mother had sent a telegram to Mr Khrushchev, has written to the Soviet Communist Party chief askmg him to help 60 other Hungarian children to join their, families. The boy, partly-crippled Peter de Marffy-Mantuano. had been separated from his family for nearly eight years. He wrote to Mr Khrushchev: “Respected Comrade Khrushchev: I have been lucky enough to reach my parents in London, but there are still many other Hungariap children who would like to join ‘their parents.
Please be so good as to intervene in this affair.”
Peter’s father, Mr Thomas de Marffy-Mantuano. was a former Hungarian diplomat. He is now a London travel agent. The. boy was left in Hungary at the age of four when his father fled to England to join his wife and two daughters. He was allowed to leave Hungary last April, five days after his mother had telegraphed Mr Khrushchev.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 13
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