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...government official, Santo had hurled a final diatribe: "Rulers" are riding the American people to the profit of Wall Street, using "labor lackeys and traitor agents" to "turn back the tide of history." Escaping Hungary Santo told New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Barrett McGurn that he hoped for "asylum in my own country -America" where he would "take my chances with the American system." No longer was he worried about U.S. "labor lackeys" and "traitor agents." Said Santo: "I think Oct. 23 [when the uprising broke out] was the beginning of the end of Communism...
What impelled Tito to clarify his position was an oblique rumor, reprinted with deliberate intent in Moscow's Pravda, that the "reactionary fascist uprising" in Hungary was all Tito's doing. To clear himself of this charge, Tito threw down the compromised Imre Nagy (who had found asylum in the Yugoslav embassy in Budapest) : "If his government had been more energetic, if it had not hesitated one time one way and then another, if it had resolutely stood up against anarchy . . . things would have moved in a more correct way." Tito now supported the Soviet-puppet Kadar regime...
Laszlo's companions chose him to ask for help from the United Nations a few days before they themselves were forced by the Russian tanks to seek asylum in Austria. Although his companion, former minister Anna Kethly, was given a hearing at the U.N., Laszlo was not admitted...
...like an old devoted married pair. During the long periods when Mary was sane, brother and sister wrote together (Tales from Shakespeare), and wined and dined almost every great literary figure of the day. When Mary showed signs of a fresh mad fit, they set off resolutely to the asylum together, walking arm in arm, weeping, and carrying Mary's straitjacket...
...ears and lapses into a kind of catatonic trance, in which he dimly realizes that the nurse-attendant is no longer bringing his soup or emptying the chamber pot. Finally, in the everyman guise of a man named Macmann, the hero is beaten with a stick by an asylum attendant and eventually dies...