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At midnight Radio Belgrade announced to the world that the Nagy party had not reached their homes. Under Secretary Vidic protested angrily to the Kadar government: "If the agreement [to return the Nagy group to their homes ] is not implemented, the Yugoslav government will consider it a flagrant violation, not only of the existing friendly relations between the two countries, but also of the generally recognized norms of international law.''
Despite the Yugoslav protest, the Hungarians spent that night at Soviet headquarters, and next morning Nagy was taken to see Premier Kadar. Nothing is known of what took place during the interview, but Kadar may have urged Nagy to join him in a coalition government, and been refused. The next that was heard of Nagy was a cryptic announcement over Radio Budapest that Nagy had expressed a wish to live in a people's democracy, and that he and his companions had "departed to the territory of the Rumanian People's Republic."
Outside the Country. In the complicated game of rival intrigues and rival ambitions in the Communist world, it may be some time before anyone knows for sure whether Tito offered up Nagy to the Russians as his way of playing the game, and was mad not so much at Nagy's arrest as at the tactless way the Russians grabbed Nagy before he was even out of Yugoslav hands. Nor could it be known whether Nagy was in fact in Rumania or, like thousands of other Hungarians, on his way to Siberia. But the Russians may yet have need of Imre Nagy's services to pacify the Hungarians. Day after his capture, the General Workers' Council of Greater Budapest demanded that Nagy be brought back and installed as head of the government, asked that a three-member delegation be allowed to visit Nagy—"wherever he is."