Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white and red of the Hungarian national colors picked out in wild flowers. Everything looked peaceful enough. But the local secretary of the Freedom Party was worried. As he took me into the box overlooking the auditorium, he said: "Yesterday the Communists sent down a truckload of agitators from Budapest to organize things for this meeting." He pointed out a group of 150 men bunched together, halfway down the side aisle. They looked tough, all right...
Rumania was quiet and safe for the Communists. Its Premier, white-haired Petru Groza, recently visited Budapest to renew acquaintances of student days. At a dinner attended by Rakosi, where wine flowed freely and violins played haunting gypsy music, Groza explained Eastern Europe in personal, precise terms. From a member of the intimate group of pro-Communist "boys in the back room," TIME heard this memorable quote from Groza...
Fellow-Traveler Groza sometimes wears dapper checks and sometimes snappy white linen suits. On his visit to Budapest he was in full Communist regalia-a double-breasted blue serge suit...
...phone rang. It was Matyas Rakosi, calling from Budapest. Rakosi was not a man whose voice made acquaintances homesick. Bullet-headed, shark-mouthed Rakosi, boss of Hungary's Communists, had a message for his nominal superior in the Government, Nagy...
...Good Night's Sleep. Nagy hung up, thought a while and decided not to accept this sinister invitation. He called Budapest to see what terms he could make with the Communists. They told him they would let his four-year-old son, Laszlo, join him in exile. Nagy went around to the Hungarian legation and announced that he would resign as Premier as soon as Laszlo arrived. Then he went back to the hotel, disconnected his phone and went to bed. Said a fellow countryman: "I'll bet Nagy was the only Hungarian in Bern who slept that...