Conversation with Hungarian Delegation
(Excerpts)
(September 27, 1957)

Source: RMRB (Oct. 15, 1957), 3.

This is quoted in a news report of a speech made on October 11, 1957, by Janos Kadar,
premier of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolutionary Government of the People’s Republic

of Hungary and first secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers'
Party, in Budapest. The main subject of this speech was to report on the delegation's visit
to China.
The delegation of the Hungarian government visited China from September 27 to October
5, 1957. A discussion between Mao and the Hungarian delegation was held on September
27 (see news report on this discussion and related events in RMRB [Sept. 28, 1957], 1; no
full text of the discussion or any speech made by Mao has been published). A joint
communiqué of the agreements between the two countries resulting from talks during this
visit was published in Beijing on October 4, 1957. (See RMSC [1958], pp. 405–406.)
These excerpts were not represented entirely in direct speech in the RMRB news report
of October 15.

Our Hungarian comrades have struggled very well. The incident that took place
in Hungary last October1 had its positive aspects. . . . I am convinced that the
Hungarian Party and the state are stronger today than they were before the incident
took place. . . . Since this counterrevolutionary incident, the People's Republic of
Hungary has become stronger. The entire international workers' movement, too,
has drawn good [lessons of] experience from the Hungarian Incident.

Note

1. See text Nov. 15, 1956, note 27.