Claim: During Robert Oakeshott's (born 1933) Oxford years, an anti-Soviet uprising broke out in Hungary and Oakeshott and a fellow student made a goodwill visit to Budapest, taking a consignment of medical supplies.
Evidence: Robert Noel Waddington Oakeshott (26 July 1933 – 21 June 2011) was an English journalist, economist and social reformer who championed a form of workers' co-operation called Employee Ownership. During his Oxford years, in 1956, an anti-Soviet uprising broke out in Hungary. Oakeshott and a fellow student made a goodwill visit to Budapest, taking a consignment of medical supplies.