Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That left Zoltan Pfeiffer, a lawyer evicted from the Smallholders, as the only anti-Communist politician of consequence in Hungary, and the Red goon squads went enthusiastically to work on Pfeiffer's Independence Party. They broke up a meeting at Szentes, 80 miles southeast of Budapest, by throwing eggs, vegetables, yellow paint and bricks. A newsman was deafened, temporarily at least, when struck on the ear by a cantaloupe...
...demand that Hungary apologize for arresting Stephen T. Thuransky, a naturalized American who had told Hungarians what he thought of their Communist-run Government. Thuransky fought his way free of guards, found overnight sanctuary in the U.S. Legation. Next day, with his family, he was whisked out of Budapest by U.S. plane. His Russian exit clearance, obtained in three hours, was the fastest on record...
Russia's proconsuls in the Balkans were doing a lot of serious commuting. Rumania's furiously fellow-traveling Premier Petru Groza, after stopovers in Belgrade and Budapest, went to Sofia, where Bulgarian Communist Premier Georgi Dimitrov received him with an old Stalinesque gesture (see cut) and a new-found sartorial nattiness. This week, Dimitrov himself journeyed to Belgrade, where he conferred with Communist Premier-Marshal Tito. Said Dimitrov on his arrival: Bulgaria and Yugoslavia are linked in brotherhood. A pact of "friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance" between the two countries was "contemplated in the near future...
...made it, one of the few prominent non-Communists left in Budapest would be Arpad Szakasits, the Social Democratic leader. Nobody tried harder to get along with the Communists than Arpad. He even called a meeting of Eastern European Socialists last month for the purpose of making Red faces at Western European Socialists...
Last week Arpad was not even waiting for Tildy to get out of the barber's chair. Arpad was making discreet inquiries at a Western European legation in Budapest. He wanted to know if the legation would give him political asylum in event of "a radical deterioration of the situation...