Word: boldizar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference a Ministry of Information spokesman, Ivan Boldizar, insisted that free speech and fair play had been guaranteed, even to the misguided opposition. Foreign newsmen estimated that 1,200,000 voters had been disfranchised, including several aged Jewish women who had escaped from the Nazis' crematory camp at Auschwitz, and who nevertheless were accused of "Fascist taint." Some of the disfranchised had lost their votes after the deadline for appeal. Spokesman Boldizar was asked if he thought this was fair play. "Well," he said, "no election laws are perfect...
...asked the correspondents, had Pfeiffer's party not been allowed to hold a scheduled rally in front of the Parliament building? Boldizar explained that another party had somehow obtained a priority permit for the same place at the same time. What he referred to was an outfit called the Independent Hungarian Democrats, led by one Rev. Istvan Balogh-a tame "opposition" party which the Government had kept around for show-window purposes...
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