HUNGARIANS DEPORTED

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28128, 17 November 1956, Page 11

HUNGARIANS DEPORTED

Protest Made At U.N.

(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK. Nov. 15. Cuba today urged the United Nations General Assembly to call on the Soviet Union to stop immediately the transhipment of political prisoners from Hungary and to demand the return of those who have already been deported, Mr Emilio Nunez-Portuonda, the Cuban permanent delegate, tabled a resolution to that effect, which would also instruct Mr Dag Hammarskjoid. the Secretary-General, to ensure that its terms were carried out “with ab urgency” by the Soviet authorities. The resolution would have the assembly brand the Soviet Union’s deportation programme in Hungary as a violation of the Genocide (race murder) Convention.

It was not known immediately whether the assembly would take up the resolution at once under the emergency rule which entitled it to suspend all other business to deal with developments in Hungary or the Middle East.

The United Press said the Hungarian Government had approached the United States, asking that part of the American food surplus be sent to the starving Hungarians. The United States delegation discussed the Hungarian food request at its closed meeting today and sent its recommendation to Washington. The American position was ex pected to be that food from the sur plus could be made available to the Communist Hungarian regime only under a humanitarian programme supervised on the spot by the United Nations, the Unitea Press said.