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Like a mask that hides the agony of the face beneath it, an uneasy calm has settled over the surface of Hungary: somehow, the people and their hated government are managing to get along. Last week TIME Correspondent Edgar Clark went to Budapest for a firsthand look at what life is like 16 months after the revolution. His report...
After Bartok. Suchon's work was premiered in 1949, but was rarely seen by Western critics until its production this month at East Berlin's State Opera. It will be staged in Belgrade, Budapest, and in the Soviet Union, eventually may find its way West. The opera's plot concerns the trials of a Slovakian peasant girl named Katrena whose lover is found murdered in a forest clearing. At first suspected, Katrena is later cleared and promptly marries an earlier suitor named Ondrej. When she bears a child ahead of schedule, Ondrej flies into a jealous rage...
...Communist, onetime gun-toting activist (in Bela Kun's post-World War I Red rebellion) and Minister to the U.S. (1949-51), who saw his own son Imre and his nephew Alexander turn freedom fighters in the 1956 revolt, then flee to Austria; after a gallstone operation; in Budapest...
...Greek government would only mean their death," he cried. "Whenever a Turkish community has lived under Greek rule, it has been exterminated." When challenged by reporters, Dr. Kuchuk changed "exterminated" to "dispersed." Turkey's newspapers backed him up with flaming headlines, e.g., ISLAND OF CYPRUS IS LIKE SMALL BUDAPEST, and in the Turkish Assembly both government and opposition Deputies stood for three minutes' silence in honor of the Turkish Cypriot dead...
...sent to labor camps. Gruenwald pored through old records, questioned other survivors, four years ago published his findings in a pamphlet. His accusing finger pointed at a well-known official in the Israeli government-Dr. Israel Kastner. Gruenwald charged that Kastner, former head of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, had made a traitorous bargain with the Nazis, allowed half a million Jews to die unwarned so that he might escape with 600 (including 19 of his own family, and 300 from his home town of Cluj...