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Britons, when asked to remember Geneva, are more inclined to remember Budapest. To the government, as to London's conservative Daily Telegraph, the Bulganin note was designed for propaganda rather than negotiations, "a guided missive . . . aimed at Downing Street but designed to affect millions everywhere." Nonetheless, Prime Minister Macmillan took it seriously enough to make it the subject of two Cabinet meetings and a private talk with Sir Winston Churchill...
Last week a brief announcement from Budapest reported that Mihaly Farkas, contemptuously identified only as "an inhabitant of Budapest," had been sentenced to 16 years in jail for "serious violations of law during his term of office." No mention was made of his son Vladimir, but there are secret trials to come...
Ever since his short-lived freedom from Communist jailers during last autumn's Hungarian revolution, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has been living in the U.S. Legation in Budapest. Mindszenty, forced by Russian intervention to seek refuge, lives in a two-room apartment, gets his meals from the legation kitchen, works on his memoirs and takes infrequent strolls in a gloomy little patio in the legation compound. Though the legation keeps him supplied with newspapers (including the Paris Herald Tribune), the protocol of diplomatic refuge forbids him to receive or send letters or to use the telephone...
Last week the Italian Communist Party organ Unita printed a dispatch from its Budapest correspondent suggesting that if the U.S. would request it, Hungary's puppet Premier Janos Kadar would be happy to grant Mindszenty a safe-conduct allowing him to leave both the legation and Hungary. To these officially inspired Communist overtures, there was a noticeable absence of response by both the Vatican and his U.S. hosts...
...York last week, Anna Kethly, a Minister of State in the eight-day government of Premier Imre Nagy, reported that Nagy, now in a Rumanian prison, will probably be brought back to Budapest shortly for trial. Two other ministers in Nagy's Cabinet have already been brought back and lodged in Fo Utca Prison, Miss Kethly said, and their trial presumably will provide the backdrop for Nagy's. Said Anna Kethly: "The Prime Minister is under great pressure to confess. A special investigation group was set up by the MVD and the AVH for this reason. Not only...