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...Through Budapest recently circulated a clandestine leaflet: "Further armed action in the face of the overwhelming strength of the Soviet army is both impossible and pointless. We Magyars must now go to the road of Gandhi." Last week there were no anonymous Gandhian millions squatting in the path of the ten Red army divisions still in Hungary. The passive resistance of the defeated Magyar nation was all in the heart and head...
...most bestial; yet step by step, Reporter Michener has made the incredible monster a believable horror. The unprintable acts attributed by witnesses to Donath lead Michener to quote with approval the verdict of "one of America's finest and gentlest newspapermen," who said: "I was in Budapest at the time and although I believe that revengeful death accomplishes little, I devoutly believe that the human race would have been better off if the Hungarians had assassinated every...
...BUDAPEST, Hungary, Feb. 28--The Hungarian Cabinet and Communist party have been reorganized. Five changes were made in Premier Janos Kadar's Cabinet. Frenc Muennich, defense minister and interior minister, became first deputy premier. Lt. Gen. Geza Revesz took over the defense ministry and Bela Biszku stepped in as interior minister...
...younger son of petite noblesse, Horthy became a naval cadet at 14, rose rapidly, was made admiral of the Austro-Hungarian fleet after he faced down a mutiny late in World War I. In 1920, as the apocalyptic Red Terror of Leninist Bela Kun burned itself out. Horthy seized Budapest, got himself declared Regent of Hungary, earned the enmity of his country's liberals by letting the bloody White Terror reaction to Kun go unchecked. Virtual dictator of Hungary in the '20s and '30s, Horthy in 1940 made his country the Axis powers' first small-nation...
Worthy claimed that officials at the United States Embassy in Budapest had tampered with his mail. The Department later explained that a letter addressed to Worthy had been opened "in error" by the U.S. Minister. Worthy pointed out, however, that the Minister doesn't usually spend his time working in the mail room...