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...Missing Bishop. Yet if virtually the whole hierarchy of the church was gathered in St. Peter's square, there were notable absences. Josef Cardinal Mindszenty languished through his sixth year of asylum in an upstairs room of the U.S. legation in Budapest. No one came from Red China. Only three of Czechoslovakia's 19 showed up, only 21 of Poland...
...support of the apathetic population by slightly relaxing his dictatorship. Today, under Kadar's slogan "He who is not against us is with us," non-Communist technicians have been given important industrial posts, attacks against the church have slackened, Western newspapers can be bought in Budapest hotel lobbies. But unlike most other Hungarian intellectuals, who tentatively raised soft voices of comment within the limits set down by the regime, Dery cloaked his reaction to the changing times in silence. He published nothing, was inaccessible to visiting Westerners, even remained aloof from other Hungarian writers. Occasionally he was seen...
Since Russian tanks crushed the Budapest uprising in 1956. Communist Boss Janos Kadar, 50. has ruled Hungary with judicious use of carrot and club. He ruthlessly exterminated the revolt leaders but tried to woo the Hungarian people with consumer goods and such self-deprecating slogans as "He who is not against me is with me." To get the faltering economy moving. Kadar replaced many of the inefficient Red managers with non-Communist Hungarian technicians, arguing that "political reliability and professional competence are two different things...
Kadar's efforts to rally the country behind him have not been a stunning success, but at least the people are quiet. Said a veteran of the Budapest revolt: "You agree to work for the Reds so you can live, so your wife can eat and your children can get an education. You try not to think about it too much." But if the people were tamely cooperative, the local Communist functionaries grew bitter at their downgrading and longed for the old days of bulletheaded Matyas Rakosi and Erno Gero, who as party leaders in 1956 had invited...
...Khrushchev. Albtourist has even hopefully sent its tourist folders to a small West German travel agency in Cologne. TIME Correspondent Edward Behr decided to apply as a tourist. He had to wait six weeks for a visa, at last entered Albania on a once-a-week Hungarian flight from Budapest to have a look at the country whose regime was described as "more bloodthirsty and retrograde than that of the czars" by no less a connoisseur than Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev...