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Gero returned from Belgrade last week, to find Budapest astir with the example of Poland's successful breakaway. Within hours after Gero's return, the revolt broke out. Desperately searching for a soft face to smile at the workers, while themselves taking the most vigorous counter-revolutionary measures, the Russians found Imre Nagy. It was his fate to be put forward too late...
...hillside as famous in France as any of Napoleon's battlefields, it was the same. Off went the grapes, the best first, to be pressed in cellars at the foot of each small field. From the vats within these reeking temples of Bacchus rose the sibilance of juice astir in natural ferment. Once again began the special miracle which the mysteries of soil, sun, slopes and ancestral skills have annually brought to pass in Burgundy since the Romans first planted grapes on the Golden Slope. Andre Noblet, red-faced cellar-master of the Romanee-Conti vineyards, whose...
When a Polish Communist poet (Adam Wazyk) can publish such eloquent and disturbing words in a Polish Communist journal, something is astir in Communist Poland...
...prize of German sovereignty assured, his pupils were kicking over the traces, bedeviling the old schoolmaster, and acting all too much like their old selves. Demagogy, irresponsible nationalism, and religious bickering swirled through provincial election campaigns in Hesse and Bavaria. The same kind of resurgent nationalism is now astir in Germany's defeated Axis partner, Japan (see below...
Djilas' attack came at a moment when Yugoslavia was astir with cold cross winds. Since Stalin's death, there has been a guarded renewal of relations between Belgrade and some Cominform capitals. Yugoslavia has renewed full diplomatic relations with Russia. Might Tito, the black-sheep Communist, return to the fold now that there was a change of shepherds? The State Department does not think he dares go back; the British only last week showed their belief in his continuing an tipathy for Moscow by granting Tito's regime another...