Word: budapests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the U. S. group arrived in Budapest on Aug. 14, it found the Hungarian government had turned over large areas of its capital city to the festival. Buses had been commandeered for transportation. The best restaurants in town were used to feed the delegates. The Amusement Park on Margaret Island in the Danube was carmarked for use by Festival people. So were the city's enormous public baths...
First event of the Festival was a mass opening ceremony in Budapest's huge stadium on Aug. 15. All the delegates were impressed by the unquestionably spontaneous reception they received as they drove through the city...
...group program was slightly different. The delegates staged folk-songs, dances, and some original choral work in a pageant that represented the history of America. Their offering was popular; the delegates noted before they left that people were humming folk-songs from the show all over Budapest. "To help explain the thing," says one of the returning delegates, "we got up a program...
Following the Festival, the exhibit started a two-months tour of Hungary. After the Budapest showing, considering preeure from inside the U. S. delegation toned it down and emphasized other than "negative aspects," but thousbeen circulated...
...held the phone. I threatened to go outside and scream for help, and he then permitted me to use the phone," Embassy officials rushed over and emphasized that this was a criminal act; the girl wired the organization she was representing and they ordered her to by home from Budapest immediately...