Word: budapests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Interior. Since Rajk's name had headed the single list of candidates in his district, his election had seemed sure. When the rapporteur of the Mandate Credentials Committee omitted Rajk's name from the list of new deputies, an uneasy question began to be asked around Budapest...
Hungary's Communist government recently reopened Kis Tarcsa, notorious Nazi concentration camp near Budapest. Of its 8,000 present inmates, 90% are Jews...
...Communists do not necessarily persecute the Jews for the Nazis' racial reasons, but mainly because so many of the Jews are small businessmen, i.e., bourgeois "class enemies." One example: of Budapest's 19,000 clothing and textile stores, 18,000 are owned by Jews. Many of the stores have already been driven into bankruptcy by heavy taxation and government-operated shops which make a point of underselling them. The rest of the Jewish stores will shortly be expropriated, according to Hungarian Economic Boss Zoltan Vas, himself...
...looked like a magnificent mulatsdg.* In Budapest's carnival-bright streets, workers danced the csdrdds and the rumba, while youngsters jitterbugged. In parks, tents had been set up for the distribution of goulash and other delicacies; beer flowed as fast as it once did at Tammany picnics. Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi had ordered weeks of countrywide fun and frolic to get the voters into the proper mood for Hungary's national elections. As in all such well-run Communist affairs, there was no opposition; the communist "People's Independence Front" presented a single list of candidates...
Schiller, a former professor at the University of Budapest, had been conducting special research at the Psychology Laboratory on a two-month leave of absence from the Yorkes laboratory of primate biology at Orange Park, Florida...