Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gundel's Restaurant in Budapest's Town Park an American could eat a black-market meal of pate de foie gras, venison, wine, salad, and dessert for $1.66. The same meal would cost a dollarless Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
...wife, Concert Violinist Carroll Glenn, to play in the White House, but List will have a hard time working it into his schedule. Next month he and his wife will fly to Prague to represent the U.S. in an international music festival. Then they will give concerts in Paris, Budapest, Berlin and Vienna, before taking a vacation in Connecticut. Says List, a very earnest young man: "I am looking forward to the summer as an oasis in the great sea of turmoil. Life is very exciting these days. So exciting I can hardly stand...
...ruins of Adolf Hitler's villa. Also pushing their way to light were weeds of old hatred; in Vienna, where a Jewish soccer team played a Gentile eleven, crowds suddenly rioted and yelled: "Into the gas with them! Into the gas!" Further south, along the thawing Danube, in Budapest, gypsies who had survived the Nazi purges again fiddled in the cafes (one of their songs: "Give my regards to lovely old Vienna. . . .") and bitter memories welled up with the execution of pro-Nazi ex-Premier Ferenc Szalasi and three of his ministers...
...cardinals were too ill to come to Rome; two more lay abed in Rome with flu. Cardinal Mindszenty, who arrived late from Budapest, was delayed by the Russians, would not have reached Rome at all but for a plane lent by the U.S. military mission in Hungary...
Archbishop Joseph Mindszenthy left behind him in Budapest mobs (probably Communist-led) which had demonstrated against him with placards reading: "Mindszenthy wants a kingdom. Hang him on a tree." The Archbishop, said Hungarian Minister of Justice Stefen Riesz, "will not be arrested, as the government refuses to make a martyr of him, as he strongly desires...