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...Bela Varga, vice-premier of Hungary until 1947, will speak at the Law School Forum on "The Satellite Revolts: Their Meaning" at 8 p.m. this evening in Sanders Theater...
...name of Bela Kovacs was something for Nagy to conjure with. A husky, muscular peasant from Pecs, a good speaker, Kovacs was the organizational genius of the Smallholders until arrested in 1947, forced to "confess" and shipped off to Siberia. Earlier this year, after nine years in Soviet prison camps, he returned to Pecs, where he was living quietly, avoiding politics. His appointment was as much a surprise to him as to everyone else in Hungary. Said a Hungarian: "He comes as close as anyone we know to being an anti-Communist." The question was, had nine years of prison...
...Imre was drafted into Austro-Hungarian army, wounded on Italian front, later captured by Russians, who sent him to Siberia. When the Czarist regime cracked he joined the Bolsheviks, was captured while fighting White Guards, escaped. Carried revolution to Hungary as minor lieutenant of famed Hungarian Communist Bela Kun, who ruled Hungary for 133 days in 1919. When the revolution failed, Bela Kun fled to Russia (where he was executed by Stalin in 1938). Nagy escaped to Paris. Returning soon after to Hungary, he was imprisoned by Admiral Horthy's regency (in power 1920-44)! On his release...
...ministries into Communist hands. As Minister of Agriculture (nicknamed "the Kulak" because of his sleek, well-fed look), Nagy undertook land seizures and enforced collectivization. As Minister for Internal Affairs (police), he acted as cover for the Soviet terror which led in 1947 to the arrest of Smallholders Secretary Bela Kovacs, and forced the resignation of Premier Ferenc Nagy (no kin), the leader of the Smallholders...
...Late Choice: Hungary was in a ferment that only grew with Khrushchev's posthumous "rehabilitation" of Bela Kun and Rajk. Students and intellectuals openly demanded "an end to this present regime of gendarmes and bureaucrats." The Russians sent First Deputy Premier Mikoyan down to Budapest to suggest that Rakosi take a health cure in Russia. The Russian solution: to supplant one gendarme bureaucrat by another. Old-Line Stalinist Erno Gero, the ruthless agent "Pedro" of the Spanish civil war (TIME, July 30), was pushed into the Hungarian leadership in July of this year, and told to clear his "liberalization...