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...imprisoned by the Nazis) received a life sentence at that 1949 trial. Except for a few days of liberty during the 1956 freedom fighters' uprising, he was to spend the next 22 years either in prison cells, under house arrest, or in asylum in the U.S. embassy in Budapest. Many of those thousands of days were endured with little or no contact with other human beings...
Imprisoned for the next seven years, four of them in solitary confinement, Mindszenty was released by freedom fighters in the 1956 uprising, but the arrival of Soviet troops force him to flee to the American legation in Budapest. Citing what he regarded as his duty as prince primate and as a patriot to remain in his homeland, Mindszenty stayed there for 15 years, writing, studying, and celebrating mass daily. He resisted the Vatican's pleas that the he leave until in 1971 a detente-minded President Nixon joined Pope Paul VI in asking him to leave. An embittered Mindszenty surrendered...
Hungary's Communist Chief János Kádr had just begun the keynote speech at the party congress in Budapest last week when he turned to the guest of honor and expressed his "sincere thanks" for the Soviet Union's "readiness to help" Hungary in its serious economic plight. It was an ironic gesture. Kádár was expressing gratitude to Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev for extending a loan of perhaps $40 million that Hungary urgently needs-to meet the newly increased price of Soviet...
American Debut. The flu has reached epidemic proportions in Eastern Europe. Two weeks ago, Radio Budapest announced that the disease had affected 1.3 million, or 9% of Hungary's population. Czech authorities reported that about 900,000 were afflicted in their country; Bulgaria acknowledged 655,000 cases, Yugoslavia 50,000. Last month the flu raged through Moscow, causing some deaths...
Brassai was born Gyula Halasz in 1900 in Brasso, a village in Hungarian Transylvania. He arrived in Paris in 1924 after art studies in Budapest and Berlin, determined to make his fortune as a painter. Not until the age of thirty did he hold a camera. His interest in photography grew quickly, however, as he discovered that with a camera he could capture and portray the restless energy and labyrinthine density of Paris. Finally he could fix forever the flickering images he saw in the subterranean night world of cafes and bars that so fascinated him. He became a photographer...