History/Political Science paper by Kecskés, Gusztáv D. [withdrawn]
The Media Campaign of the UN Institutions for Assisting the 1956 Hungarian Refugees
Type of Abstract (select):Abstract (max. 250 words):
The present paper is based on documents from the archives of the UN itself (New York, Geneva), the Dag Hammarskjöld Collection of the Swedish National Library (Stockholm), the UNHCR Archives, the archives of International Committee of the Red Cross, (Geneva) and of the NATO (Brussels), and from those of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Paris, Nantes. We could regard as a rather new phenomenon the active and powerful participation of the Department of Public Information (DPI) of the UN Secretariat and the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the support of the fundraising efforts of the world organization UN. The press campaign developing in November-December 1956 extended to both the printed and the audiovisual media, placing the emphasis on the latter. I intend to present the versatile efforts described in a huge number of press announcements and the dramatic photos spreading all over the world press about the escaping and Austria receiving the Hungarian refugees.
Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Gusztáv Kecskés D. is a senior research fellow of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History (Budapest). He received his PhD (history of the international relations) from the University of Paris III, Sorbonne and University of Pécs in 2003. He has conducted extensive research in the archives of European great powers and international organizations. He has published books about French-Hungarian relations (2013) and French foreign policy towards East Central Europe in the 20th century (2004), Hungary and the United Nations (2006) and the international reception of the 1956 Hungarian refugees (2014). kecskes.gusztav@btk.mta.hu