Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austrian border guard who admitted Hungarian refugees without passport, visa, permit, or investigation and shot the Russian soldier who pursued them...
...Austrian who, without requiring applause, shares his food, his home and his freedom with the Hungarian refugees...
...rate of 2,400 a day, Hungarians continued to flee west over the Austrian border. Though well below last month's peak daily rate of 8,500, the arrival of more thousands left great numbers of people to be fed, cared for, and-with luck-moved elsewhere. At week's end there were some 73,786 refugees in Austria. In all, 121,504 Hungarians have crossed the frontier since Oct. 28. The U.S. has agreed to take 21,500. France, Britain and Canada have set no limits...
Written by the Czech Hans Janowitz and the Austrian Carl Mayer, the film was the product partly of their own experience (Janowitz' father had gone insane), and it was partly intended as the masque of an attack on the unlimited authority of the German government. But the director, Dr. Robert Wiene, added the first and last sequences, in the institution, so that the movie lost its political meaning, and offers no ending outside the puzzle of appearances...
...Western correspondents were able to file brief pooled dispatches on the only Teletype circuit to Vienna left intact. To get out the full, running narrative of Hungary's deathwatch, Jones ran off five carbon copies of his stories, sent them out with acquaintances, passers-by and an Austrian black-marketeer. So effective was their improvisation that the first big convoy of correspondents who arrived in Austria with eyewitness accounts of the Soviet counterattack in Budapest found that Jones, Marton and Reuters' Farquhar had scooped them. Since telephone service was restored, Jones has managed to phone out at least...