SussexTERM started at Mr Durham’s school. Margaret began to get used to the new routine there. It was a wet and dismal autumn.
Arguments about Suez continued in Parliament and the press, but it was events in Hungary that worried Margaret and her parents. Through September and October they followed what was happening there as closely as they could. John picked up broadcasts from Budapest on his short-wave radio. He was amazed by the boldness of the Hungarian leaders, calling for free elections and a neutral status for their country, like that of Austria.
The Hungarian Communist Party appointed a new Prime Minister, Imre Nagy. Nagy had been dismissed by the Communists not long before. Now he seemed to be the right man to lead the reforms. Many Hungarians were calling for the end of the Com
