Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the Nazis had taken from Hungary. Said the U.S. note: "The [Soviet estimate] is grossly exaggerated. The most important single item of Hungarian property in the American zones appears to be ... gold . . . which amounts to approximately $32,000,000." This gold is now on its way back to Budapest...
...interested in more than fixing responsibility. Washington, un willing to gamble on Soviet assistance to Budapest's anti-Communist Government, proposed an inter-Allied commission to plan and carry out economic reconstruction. Such coordinated assistance for needy nations had been planned by the Big Three at Yalta. The Russians, who were always quick to cry "Yalta" when it suited their own ends, now had the embarrassing choice of repudiating their favorite inter national agreement or welcoming Allied incursion into their private booty preserve...
When things get too stuffy, this modern chronicler has only to shift his scene from Paris to Warsaw, London to Budapest, from the back room, of a leather-goods shop to the cockpit of a speeding plane. And as if the wonders of the Air Age were not enough, Author Romains has a fine eye for the contemporary intimacy of sex and politics...
Some 4% of Budapest's citizens live in morbid, black-market-borne luxury, nightly jam the few remaining big hotels, famed restaurants like Gundel's or the Cafe Michel, theaters, cabarets and movie houses. For the rest of the people, food rations are down to 556 calories...
...Detroit is large; it differs from that of the diplomatic capitals of Europe. This does not mean that Detroit cannot handle a diplomat now & then. Take last week. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Vassilievich Novikov was entertained for two full days. And he could tell he wasn't in Budapest...